Cumulative Exam — Cumulative exam Answers

Nori is writing an essay to analyze an advertisement for a piece of athletic equipment. What elements should he include in order to write an effective analysis? Select 3 options.personal opinions about the product being advertisedthe advertising techniques used to persuade the viewerinformation about competing products and advertiserswhat tools the advertiser uses to sell the productthe purpose of the advertiser’s message

Keats’s poem is titled "Ode on a Grecian Urn." What does the choice of the word ode tell the reader about the poem? Select three options.The poem is written in a formal style.The poem includes a theme.The poem is addressed to something.The poem expresses emotions.The poem explores a serious topic.

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Read the procedural text.The procedure for making homemade lemonade is quite easy. First, combine one cup of sugar with one cup of water. To make a simple syrup, heat the mixture until the sugar has completely dissolved. Next, juice eight lemons. Then, combine the simple syrup, the lemon juice, and four cups of cold water in a pitcher. Enjoy your lemonade!Selma followed the process described in the text above. After tasting her lemonade, she decided it did not taste right.

Look at the excerpt from "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything.More to our purpose, we need to ask answerable questions for the eminently practical reason that if a question has no end, neither does the research. Pursuing an open-ended question can be a fool’s errand. So, to become a skilled researcher, step number one is learning how to craft the answerable question.______________To become a skilled researcher, step number one is learning how to craft the answerable question._______________Say you’re a reporter for a business magazine and your editor wants to run an article on computer executive compensation. The editor asks you to find out if computer executives are overpaid. This is a great idea for a magazine article. It would probably make for a nifty feature in any number of business and tech magazines.

Ari is revising her essay to include more precise language. Which words should she replace? Select 3 options.specific wordsmisused wordsrepeated wordsvague wordsscientific words

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave” by Neil MacGregor.Here’s a snatch of the letter from the president of the United States that Perry delivered to the Japanese emperor:Many of the large ships-of-war destined to visit Japan have not yet arrived in these seas, and the undersigned, as an evidence of his friendly intentions, has brought but four of the smaller ones, designing, should it become necessary, to return to Edo in the ensuing spring with a much larger force. But it is expected that the government of your imperial majesty will render such return unnecessary, by acceding at once to the very reasonable and pacific overtures contained in the president’s letter . . .This was textbook gunboat diplomacy, and it worked. Japanese resistance melted, and very quickly the Japanese embraced the new economic model, becoming energetic players in the international markets they had been forced to join. They began to think differently about the sea that surrounded them, and their awareness of the possible opportunities in the world beyond grew fast.

DeShawn is writing a media analysis essay about British propaganda during World War II, and one of his examples is this poster.

When a writer does not know who performed the action in a sentence, the writer can still write a grammatically correct sentence by

The primary purpose of a procedural text is to

Which sentence correctly uses a hyphen in a compound modifier?

Read the table of contents and sample page from a procedural text.

Which statement about Pat Mora’s essay "The Leader in the Mirror" is correct?

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What grammatical structure is repeated in this excerpt? Check all that apply.

Read the passage.(1) Universal health care should be adopted by every country around the world. (2) Over 100 million people become poor every year because of healthcare bills. (3) Imagine how it feels to be afraid to go to the doctor for fear of plunging into debt. (4) That is a really terrible thing, and governments need to act. (5) The World Health Organization (WHO) says that universal health care is achievable, even in poor countries. (6) The WHO recommends spreading the costs of health care

Read the sentence.The advertisement shows a group of people on an assembly line helping to make a large piece of equipment.

Read the excerpt from Pat Mora’s essay "The Leader in the Mirror."I hoped that most of the students were going to enroll in college. The confetti would be for their private celebrations, those solitary moments when they had passed a test that worried them, finished a difficult paper at 2 A.M., found a summer internship. Sometimes, even when no one else is around, it’s important to celebrate when we have struggled and succeeded—to sprinkle a little confetti on our own heads.Now read the excerpt from the article "Career Planning for High Schoolers."About two-thirds of high school graduates from the class of 2013 enrolled in college that fall, according to BLS: 42 percent in baccalaureate (4-year) colleges and 24 percent in 2-year schools. Of the remaining one-third of 2013 graduates, who opted not to go to college, 74 percent entered the labor force.College-bound high school graduates may not know it, but BLS data show that wages are usually higher, and unemployment rates lower, for people who continue their education after high school.

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Read the passage from "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles."My spirit is too weak—mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagined pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship, tells me I must dieLike a sick eagle looking at the sky.Now, read the passage from "Ode on Intimations of Morality," another poem from the Romantic period.The rainbow comes and goes,And lovely is the rose;The moon doth with delightLook round her when the heavens are bare;Waters on a starry nightAre beautiful and fair;The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath past away a glory from the earth.