Read the sentence from “Broken Chain.”But Alfonso knew Raul, a paperboy with dollar signs in his eyes, would charge him, and he had less than sixty cents, counting the soda bottles he could cash.What is the connotation of the underlined description, and what does it say about Raul?
Read the excerpt from "Broken Chain.”"Ponytails! Those girls who messed with Frostie and me had ponytails. Is she cool?”"I think so.”Ernie sat up in bed. "I bet you that’s her.”Alfonso felt his stomach knot up. "She’s going to be my girlfriend, not yours!”"I’m going to get even with her!”"You better not touch her,” Alfonso snarled, throwing a wadded Kleenex at him. "I’ll run you over with my bike.”Which message does Gary Soto want readers to take away?
Which cause-and-effect relationship in “Broken Chain” best expresses the theme “Outward appearances are important to people”?
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 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
Read the excerpt from “Broken Chain.”Alfonso sat on the porch trying to push his crooked teeth to where he thought they belonged. He hated the way he looked. Last week he did fifty sit-ups a day, thinking that he would burn those already apparent ripples on his stomach to even deeper ripples.
Which sentence from “Broken Chain” best expresses a theme related to wanting more than one has?
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?
In “Broken Chain,” Alfonso is motivated to do fifty sit-ups a day because he wants
Which adjective is the most precise for describing a character?
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