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Read the excerpt from "Missing in Action” by Thanhha Lai.This day Mother prepares an altarto chant for his return, offering fruit, incense, tuberoses, and glutinous rice.She displays his portrait taken during Tết the year he disappeared.How peaceful he looks, smiling, peacock tails at the corners of his eyes.Each of us bows and wishes and hopes and prays.

A
It introduces a repeated idea that underscores how the atmosphere of the household is tense.
B
It develops a slow rhythm that highlights how the speaker is sympathetic to her mother.
C
It creates a continuous thought, as it presents the idea that rituals must be followed carefully.
D
It builds the intensity, as it emphasizes the importance the family places on honoring a family member.
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What is a break or pause in the middle of a line, often marked with punctuation, called?

A
enjambment
B
caesura
C
justification
D
punctuation
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A golden shovel can impact the meaning of a poem by using a different poet’s

A
line to help express certain ideas.
B
rhyme scheme to develop a theme.
C
stanzas to help establish the meter.
D
justification to make words stand out.
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Read the excerpt from "We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

A
rhyme scheme
B
repeated line
C
couplet
D
quatrain
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Read the excerpt from "Rosa” by Rita Dove.Doing nothing was the doing: the clean flame of her gazecarved by a camera flash.How she stood up when they bent down to retrieve her purse. That courtesy.

A
They emphasize the speaker’s admiration for her subject.
B
They demonstrate the speaker’s confusion over the situation.
C
They reinforce the speaker’s presentation of historical events.
D
They reveal the speaker’s relationship to the main topic.
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Read the excerpt from "Jabari Unmasked” by Nikki Grimes. The ignorant ignore as best you can, and in the end, mask aside, freshen your mouth with ferocious lines of potent poetry, with metaphors that mightily reveal the myriad of emotions you feel—yet, in all their subtleties.

A
short lines
B
right justification
C
enjambment
D
capitalized phrases
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Read the excerpt from "On Imagination” by Phillis Wheatley. Now here, now there, the roving Fancy flies, Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes, Whose silken fetters all the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind.Imagination! who can sing thy force? Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?

A
It creates a pensive tone that shows the speaker’s feelings on the power of imagination.
B
It creates a suspicious tone that conveys the speaker’s distrust toward imagination.
C
It creates an annoyed tone that demonstrates the speaker’s inability to define imagination.
D
It creates a humorous tone that stresses the speaker’s attitude about the quirks of imagination.
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Read the excerpt from "On Imagination” by Phillis Wheatley.Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand.

A
“Thy various works, imperial queen, we see,”
B
“How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee!”
C
“Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand,”
D
“And all attest how potent is thine hand.”
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Read the excerpt from "Missing in Action” by Thanhha Lai.Everything on the altar remains for the day except the portrait. Mother locks it away as soon as her chant ends.She cannot bear to look into Father’s forever-young eyes.

A
It develops a tone of hostility as the reader grasps the speaker’s anger at her mother.
B
It develops a tone of grief as the reader observes the events through the speaker’s eyes.
C
It develops a tone of respect as the reader learns of one of the speaker’s family rituals.
D
It develops a tone of uncertainty as the speaker’s setting remains unknown to the reader.
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Which action would best help determine the tone of a poem?

A
assess how the poet uses rhyme and meter to present a particular sound
B
examine how the poet uses punctuation throughout to develop the poem’s composition
C
determine how the poet uses plot and characterization to create the poem’s meaning
D
analyze how the poet uses graphical and structural elements to convey a particular attitude

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