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A student is completing a research-based expository essay on the history of presidential campaigns. Which steps take place in the prewriting stage? Choose three correct answers.

A
The student edits the writing and uses MLA formatting to properly cite evidence.
B
The student synthesizes information from articles about Abraham Lincoln’s campaign.
C
The student analyzes the writing prompt to establish a purpose for writing.
D
The student cites an article about how the first political campaigns were funded.
E
The student creates an outline with topics, reasons, and supporting evidence.
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Erick is writing a research-based expository essay on the benefits of learning to code early in life. Which topic sentence most effectively introduces his essay?

A
Coding is the best way for young people to gain an edge on experience over their peers.
B
If you code as a young person, then you can achieve your goals more quickly than others.
C
Coding is just one of many advantages that working with computers can offer a person in life.
D
Coding is computer programming that, when studied at a young age, can lead to future benefits.
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Which statements are true of realistic fiction? Choose three correct answers.

A
The conflicts are common problems with believable outcomes.
B
The setting is an environment that reflects the real world as it is.
C
The characters are historical figures or people living today.
D
The theme provides relatable messages about everyday life.
E
The tone is developed through the reader's perspective.
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Why is it helpful to examine the tone of a sonnet?

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Identifying the emotional impact the sonnet has on the reader or listener allows readers to interpret it accurately.
B
Determining how the poet feels about the subject of the sonnet is the main purpose of interpretation.
C
Identifying the tonal patterns of rhyme and rhythm in a sonnet enables readers to correctly interpret it.
D
Determining the speaker's attitude toward the topic of a sonnet is essential to an accurate interpretation.
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What is the definition of situational irony?

A
a situation in which an author makes fun of human flaws and imperfections
B
a situation in which a character says the opposite of what he or she really means
C
a situation in which the reader knows something the characters do not know
D
a situation in which what happens is the opposite of what was expected to happen
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What evidence supports the conclusion that "The Storyteller” uses satire to impart the theme that adults should respect children’s intelligence? Choose two correct answers.

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“‘Come and look out of the window,’ she added. “The child moved reluctantly to the window. ‘Why are those sheep being driven out of that field?’ he asked.”
B
“‘Oh, look at those cows!’ exclaimed the aunt. Nearly every field along the line had contained cows or bullocks, but she spoke as though she were drawing attention to a rarity.”
C
“The smaller girl made no actual comment on the story, but she had long ago recommenced a murmured repetition of her favourite line.”
D
“The storyteller paused to let a full idea of the park’s treasures sink into the children’s imaginations; then he resumed.”
E
“‘The story began badly,’ said the smaller of the small girls, ‘but it had a beautiful ending.’ “‘It is the most beautiful story that I ever heard,’ said the bigger of the small girls, with immense decision. “‘It is the only beautiful story I have ever heard,’ said Cyril.”
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Part 2 Which words from the passage best support the correct answer to Part 1?

A
“got detention if we didn’t take it seriously”
B
“being a prefix to terrorism, extremism”
C
“feel sick with longing”
D
“have crushes and go on diets”
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Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of these panels?

A
Marjane wants to be a prophet to abolish embarrassment.
B
Marjane wants to be a prophet to help others face their fate.
C
Marjane wants to be a prophet to make others wealthy.
D
Marjane wants to be a prophet to fix the world’s injustices.
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Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of these panels?

A
Satrapi wanted to dye her hair, too.
B
Satrapi’s mother became famous.
C
Satrapi was proud of her mother.
D
Satrapi’s mother feared for her life.
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Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image How does the middle row of panels help develop the central idea of this page?

A
They make Marjane grateful for all she has.
B
They describe the privilege that Marjane has.
C
They illustrate Marjane’s embarrassment.
D
They show that Iranian children living in poverty had to work.
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Read the excerpt from Persepolis . Expand Image What is the central idea of this page?

A
The maid was sad and missed her family.
B
The maid and Marjane played a lot.
C
The maid was always hungry and ate a lot.
D
The maid was a child, like Marjane.
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Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 19.” Which features make this an example of a Shakespearean sonnet? Choose three correct answers.

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the fact that the final lines summarize the preceding lines
B
the groupings of two stressed syllables
C
the widespread use of iambic pentameter
D
the use of three quatrains followed by a couplet
E
the abab , cdcd , efef , gg rhyme scheme
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Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 19.” Which is the best paraphrase of the line 9?

A
Do not make my love look older.
B
Time cannot alter my love.
C
My love has beautiful brows.
D
Keep time from passing.
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Read the excerpt from "The Open Window." In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window; they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired brown spaniel kept close at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoarse young voice chanted out of the dusk: "I said, Bertie, why do you bound?” Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall-door, the gravel-drive, and the front gate were dimly-noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid an imminent collision. "Here we are, my dear,” said the bearer of the white mackintosh, coming in through the window; "fairly muddy, but most of it’s dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?” "A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel,” said Mrs. Sappleton; "could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off without a word of good-bye or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost.” "I expect it was the spaniel,” said the niece calmly; "he told me he had a horror of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone lose their nerve.” Romance at short notice was her specialty. How does the author use characterization to create satire?

A
He uses Mrs. Sappleton’s perceptions of Framton to ridicule her lack of understanding of his concerns.
B
He uses the niece’s unexpected lies to highlight flaws in her character and those around her.
C
He uses Mr. Sappleton’s curiosity about Framton’s sudden departure to highlight Framton’s rudeness.
D
He uses Framton’s fearfulness, which is inappropriate because the hunters are not ghosts.
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Read the excerpt from "The Open Window." "Her great tragedy happened just three years ago,” said the child; "that would be since your sister’s time.” "Her tragedy?” asked Framton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of place. "You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October afternoon,” said the niece, indicating a large French window that opened on to a lawn. "It is quite warm for the time of the year,” said Framton; "but has that window got anything to do with the tragedy?” "Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favourite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning. Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its self-possessed note and became falteringly human. "Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do. That is why the window is kept open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing, ‘Bertie, why do you bound?’ as he always did to tease her, because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window—” She broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance. "I hope Vera has been amusing you?” she said. "She has been very interesting,” said Framton. "I hope you don’t mind the open window,” said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; "my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. They’ve been out for snipe in the marshes today, so they’ll make a fine mess over my poor carpets. So like you men-folk, isn’t it?” She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible. What is an example of situational irony in the excerpt?

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“‘Her great tragedy happened just three years ago,’ said the child; ‘that would be since your sister’s time.’”
B
“‘Her tragedy?’ asked Framton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of place.”
C
“She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible.”
D
“‘I hope you don’t mind the open window,’ said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; ‘my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way.’”
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Which change should the student have made to the writing process?

A
She should have written a research question before conducting research.
B
She should have found one valid source in order to write a research question.
C
She should have decided on a purpose and audience before analyzing the prompt.
D
She should have begun the whole writing process by creating an outline.

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