Which adjective is the most precise for describing a character?
Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.”The next day he spent his lawn-mowing money on a new shirt and, with a pocketknife, scooped the moons of dirt from under his fingernails.Which message does Gary Soto want readers to take away?
Read the excerpt from “Broken Chain.”“Come on, man, let me use it,” Alfonso pleaded. “Please, Ernie, I’ll do anything.”Although Ernie could see Alfonso’s desperation, he had plans with his friend Raymundo. They were going to catch frogs at the Mayfair canal. He felt sorry for his brother and gave him a stick of gum to make him feel better, but there was nothing he could do. The canal was three miles away, and the frogs were waiting.Which message does Gary Soto want readers to take away?
Read the excerpt from “Broken Chain.”The chain snapped in another place and hit him when it popped up, slicing his hand like a snake’s fang.The descriptive language shows that the chain is
Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.”His father had come home that evening from a softball game, happy that his team had drilled four homers in a thirteen-to-five bashing of Color Tile.Which type of descriptive language is used in the sentence?
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Read the excerpt from “Broken Chain.”Alfonso said over and over that she was too nice to pull a stunt like that. But Ernie argued that she lived only two blocks from where those girls had told them to wait, that she was in the same grade, and, the clincher, that she had ponytails. Secretly, however, Ernie was jealous that his brother, two years younger than himself, might have found a girlfriend.A theme in this excerpt is expressed by
Which cause-and-effect relationship in “Broken Chain” best expresses the theme “Outward appearances are important to people”?
In “Broken Chain,” Alfonso is motivated to do fifty sit-ups a day because he wants
Which cause-and-effect relationship in “Broken Chain” relates to the theme “Even when you have problems with your family, in the end you can count on them”?
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