What tone would be most appropriate for a PSA about healthy eating?
Read the excerpt from "Fish Cheeks."On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.
Read the excerpt from "Broken Chain."Alfonso sat on the porch trying to push his crooked teeth to where he thought they belonged. He hated the way he looked. Last week he did fifty sit-ups a day, thinking that he would burn those already apparent ripples on his stomach to even deeper ripples, dark ones, so when he went swimming at the canal next summer, girls in cut-offs would notice. And the guys would think he was tough, someone who could take a punch and give it back. He wanted "cuts” like those he had seen on a calendar of an Aztec warrior standing on a pyramid with a woman in his arms.Why does Soto most likely open the story with this characterization of Alfonso?
Which quotation from the poem "Ellis Island" supports the theme "Immigration to America did not answer everyone’s dreams”?
Based on This Land Was Made for You and Me, which song did Woody Guthrie most likely write while staying with Alan Lomax and his wife in Washington, DC?
Read the excerpt from "Broken Chain."Alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. He liked the way Prince looked—and the bass player from Los Lobos. Alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a V in the back and streaked purple. But he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.”Soto most likely includes a characterization of both Alfonso and his father in this passage to show that
It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did – perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:Local man: “New York, huh?”Me: "Yep."Local man: “I was there in nineteen thirty-eight – or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?"Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.”Local man: "Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.”
Read the sentences from “Fish Cheeks.”After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.”Her mother's word choice reveals that Amy Tan thinks American girls are
Which statement is the best reason that the author includes conversations with the dog in the book Travels with Charley?
Charley sneezed and paced restlessly. "All right, mon cur, let's like your side of it. You want to go on. Suppose we do, and in the night a tree should crash down right where we are presently standing. It would be you who have the attention of the gods. And there is always that chance. I could tell you many stories about faithful animals who saved their masters, but I think you are just bored and I'm not going to flatter you.”
Which statement best describes a similarity between the poem "Ellis Island" and the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View"?
Read the sentence from "Fish Cheeks.”At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and belched loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking.Which senses does the description appeal to?
It was said that my New York license plates would arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they did – perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip. But such contacts followed an invariable pattern, somewhat as follows:Local man: “New York, huh?”Me: "Yep."Local man: “I was there in nineteen thirty-eight – or was it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we went to New York?"Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the year Alfred died.”Local man: "Anyway, I hated it. Wouldn't live there if you paid me.”
Read the sentence from “Fish Cheeks.”For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy, Robert, and a slim new American nose.Which sense does the description appeal to?
Which sentence is conditional?
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