Which choice is one reason Walt Whitman repeats words in “I Hear America Singing”?
Read the excerpt from "The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes."I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!• You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.• You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. . . .If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.A few experts challenged Champollion's methods and clung to the notion that the hieroglyphs had a purely symbolic meaning. But Champollion's defenders, after further studies, proved his approach correct beyond any doubt.Which answer choice best states a cause-and-effect relationship from the excerpt?
Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”If we have known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same type of thing we have had; and even though we may always be critical of some things in our past, time nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they rock their babies or busy themselves in household tasks, that their daughters will do the same things someday.
Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.De Guignes guessed rightly that the cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were intended to draw attention to important names, probably the names of Egyptian rulers.Along with such insights, de Guignes advanced other ideas about the hieroglyphs that were as silly as any that had been proposed by Kircher or Horapollo. After comparing some Egyptian hieroglyphs with examples of Chinese picture writing, de Guignes announced that settlers from Egypt must have colonized China in ancient times.What ideas of de Guignes differed sharply from the author’s?
In "The Snow King,” what can the reader infer about the person who made the snowman?
Read the excerpt from “The Snow-Queen.”Kay and Gerda were looking at one of their picture-books—the clock in the great church-tower had just struck five, when Kay exclaimed, “Oh! something has stung my heart, and I've got something in my eye!”The little girl threw her arms round his neck; he winked hard with both his eyes; no, she could see nothing in them.“I think it is gone now,” said he; but it had not gone. It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly. And poor Kay had also a splinter in his heart, and it began to change into a lump of ice. It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.
Read the following excerpt from "The Boy Who Glowed.”In the long distant past, upon the western shores of the Great Water, there lived a fisherman and his wife. They had no children and the nearest village was a day away. They lived alone, surrounded by rocky cliffs and dull, gray skies. Each day, the fisherman would go out upon the Great Water. His wife would sit on the beach watching the birds with their young circling in the sky and riding the waves. As the birds chatted and dove for minnows, she called out, "Oh, sea birds, how I wish I had children like you to keep me company during these long, gray days.”
Which excerpt from "The Roller Coaster" is the best example of external conflict?
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