Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives. Which best describes how Anaya uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censors want to limit what people can read?
Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima . The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.” Which type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?
Which quotations from chapter 7 of Night convey an atmosphere of panic? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night . Pressed tightly against one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories. Our minds numb with indifference. The most likely reason the author uses the word whirlwind in this excerpt is to show
What is the mood of a literary text?
Which sentence is an example of direct characterization?
Use the following definitions to answer the question. conscience: 1. (noun) the sense of right and wrong 2. (noun) inner thoughts conscious: 1. (adjective) aware 2. (noun) area of the mind aware of surroundings Which sentence contains correct word usage?
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. In June the sun is a bonnet of light Coming up, Little by little, From behind a skyline of pine. The pastures sway with fiddle-neck, Tassels of foxtail. At Piedra A couple fish on the river’s edge, Their shadows deep against the water. Which line shows metaphor?
the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. Already I am becoming the valley, A soil that sprouts nothing. For any of us. Which poetic element is used in the first line of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron." The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Vonnegut uses satire in this excerpt by
Which excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron" best illustrates irony?
Read the stanza from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California." In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! Which statement best reflects the feeling conveyed in this stanza?
Read this phrase from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California." I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective. From this excerpt, it can best be inferred that the speaker is
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