Which statement best acknowledges an individual's contributions?
Some sections of “Initiation” imply that Millicent will decline the sorority’s invitation.
The author’s purpose is
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Read the passage from “Initiation.”The door behind her opened and a ray of light sliced across the soft gloom of the basement room."Hey Millicent, come on out now. This is it." There were some of the girls outside."I'm coming," she said, getting up and moving out of the soft darkness into the glare of light, thinking: This is it, all right. The worst part, the hardest part, the part of initiation that I figured out myself.
How do authors present and develop characters? Choose four answers.the way characters are describedthe situations in which the characters interactthe number of characters in each chapterdialogue between charactersconflicts within and between characters
In “Initiation,” one example of a character vs. self conflict is when Millicent
In "The Caged Bird,” what is the speaker’s tone or attitude toward the subject of oppression? Choose three answers. angerconfusiondefianceindifferenceoutrage
Read the excerpt from “The Scarlet Ibis.”Doodle was frightened of being left. “Don’t go leave me, Brother,” he cried, and he leaned toward the coffin. His hand, trembling, reached out, and when he touched the casket he screamed. A screech owl flapped out of the box into our faces, scaring us and covering us with Paris green. Doodle was paralyzed, so I put him on my shoulder and carried him down the ladder, and even when we were outside in the bright sunshine, he clung to me, crying, “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.”
What is the purpose of using precise language?
Read the following passage from "The Caged Bird.”But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped andhis feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".But Laura had gotten used to the life here. She did not want to go back to the old country where, de la Torre or not, she was only a wife and a mother (and a failed one at that, since she had never provided the required son). Better an independent nobody than a high-class houseslave. She did not come straight out and disagree with her husband's plans. Instead, she fussed with him about reading the papers in bed, soiling their sheets with those poorly printed, foreign tabloids. "The Times is not that bad!" she'd claim if her husband tried to humor her by saying they shared the same dirty habit.
Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.
What does it mean to "compromise”?
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