Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which song did Woody Guthrie most likely write while staying with Alan Lomax and his wife in Washington, DC?
Read the excerpt from "Escape."But I don’t knowif it’s all thereWaiting for the opportunityto jump into youAnd try to help youFix youAsk youWhy? Because I don’t know
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Read the passages from “A Smart Cookie” by Sandra Cisneros and “An Hour with Abuelo” by Judith Ortiz Cofer.I could’ve been somebody, you know? my mother says and sighs. She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera. She knows how to fix a TV. But she doesn’t know which subway train to take to get downtown.When I came back to the island, things had changed. You had to have a college degree to teach school. . . . I became a farmer. I married a good woman who gave me many good children. I taught them all how to read and write before they started school.
It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did – perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:Local man: “New York, huh?”Me: "Yep."Local man: “I was there in nineteen thirty-eight – or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?"Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.”Local man: "Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.”
Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.Woody thought there was plenty to worry about. The Great Depression, which had begun in 1929, was grinding on. For years, desperate, hungry people had been tramping the roads and riding the rails, looking for work or handouts.
Which of these describes a structure element of the villanelle?
Read the passage.From the start, he felt like a fish out of water at the new school. The other students had been there for at least a year. They knew where all the classrooms were. They knew the routines the teachers liked them to follow. He, however, was learning everything for the first time.
Which statement from Governor George Wallace's inaugural address bestsupports his claim that the South will always embrace racial segregation?
The first step in analyzing an editorial is to
Which sentence is conditional?
Read the passage.The wind sang to them softly, as the couple watched a sunset blossom like a rose unfolding across the sky. They thought it was the most special sunset in the history of sunsets. They floated on water that was a smooth mirror, refusing to return to the shore until the light show was over. Years later, when they were long in the tooth, they would still remember that evening.
Charley sneezed and paced restlessly. "All right, mon cur, let's like your side of it. You want to go on. Suppose we do, and in the night a tree should crash down right where we are presently standing. It would be you who have the attention of the gods. And there is always that chance. I could tell you many stories about faithful animals who saved their masters, but I think you are just bored and I'm not going to flatter you.”
Woody Guthrie was most likely inspired to write about a “ribbon of highway” when traveling on a
It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did – perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:Local man: “New York, huh?”Me: "Yep."Local man: “I was there in nineteen thirty-eight – or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?"Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.”Local man: "Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.”
Which statement best describes why writers use juxtaposition?
Which sentence uses direct characterization?
Read the excerpt from "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth.A sight so touching in its majesty:This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare
Read the passages from “A Smart Cookie” by Sandra Cisneros and “An Hour with Abuelo” by Judith Ortiz Cofer.Today while cooking oatmeal she is Madame Butterfly until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me. I could’ve been somebody, you know? Esperanza, you go to school. Study hard.For four years I boarded with a couple she knew. I paid my rent in labor, and I ate vegetables I grew myself. I wore my clothes until they were thin as parchment. But I graduated at the top of my class!
Read the excerpt from "Parsley” by Rita Dove.we lie down screaming as rain punches throughand we come up green.
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