Pronoun Agreement and Reference — Unit test Answers

Read the paragraph.[1] Studies have shown that kids who eat healthy food have more energy. [2] When students are more energized, they get better grades. [3] Still, half the Lincoln High students eat pizza at its lunchtime. [4] The school plans to start offering healthier options like salads and fruit as an alternative.Which sentence contains a pronoun-antecedent error?

Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!".The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

Read the excerpt from "Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye.And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that gate—once the crying of confusion stopped—seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.(Naomi Shihab Nye, "Gate A-4" from Honeybee. Copyright © 2008 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted with permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

Which statement best explains why comparing Lincoln to a ship captain is an appropriate comparison?

Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle.Older cousins show me how to shake the mule’s quijada, to make the blunt teeth rattle.Guitars. Drums. Gourds. Sticks.A cow bell. A washboard. Pretty soon, we have a whole orchestra.

In "Sympathy," why does Dunbar repeat the phrase “I know” throughout the poem?

Read the excerpt from "Duty.”When he tells the story nowhe’s at the center of it,everyone else in the housefalling into the backdrop—my mother, grandmother,an uncle, all dead now—propsin our story: father and daughtercaught in memory’s half-light.Duty from Monument by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2018 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

How are the themes of “We Wear the Mask” and "A Man Said to the Universe" similar?

Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.”Inside we follow the ranger, hurried though we are to get to the beach. He tells of graves lost in the Gulf, the island split on half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried.The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance— each Confederate soldier’s name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards— 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy?"Native Guard" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.