Unit 4 Assessment: Reading Literature Exam

Question 25 of 25 • 2025/26 English III B CR

Which excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea” is an example of non-academic English?

Answer

"Yes, indeed!" said the father looking toward the tree designated.

Sometimes in his dreams he was a prince, riding away in a gorgeous carriage.

Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the simple folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams.

"Aw, woman, stop dat talk 'bout conjure. Tain't so nohow. Ah doan want Jawn tuh git dat foolishness in him."

Fireside Poets

Out of Many, One: Rhetoric in The Gettysburg Address and "O Captain! My Captain!"

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