Read the passage from The American Plague.Toward the end of October, Washington heard from Postmaster General Pickering that the fever seemed to be on the wane. A cold spell had swept in and with it a cleansing rain. Burials were falling in number, from a high of 120 on October 11 to half that number on October 21.This good news was followed almost immediately by a contradictory report from Comptroller Wolcott. After several good days in the city, he explained, warm weather reappeared and deaths increased, jumping to 82 on October 22. Wolcott advised the president to delay his return trip several more days.From the central ideas of these two paragraphs, the reader can conclude that
Read the excerpt from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments; his wife, looking fresh and cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him. At the bottom of the steps she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, an attitude of matchless grace and dignity. Ah, how beautiful she is! He springs forward with extended arms. Which best describes the narration in the excerpt?
Read the last stanza from "The Charge of the Light Brigade." When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder’d.Honor the charge they made!Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! How is the last stanza structured differently than all the others in the poem?
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Read the sentences."Wow!” exclaimed Melida. "Your ballgown dress is so pretty.”
Which idea from The American Plague best represents the central idea for the entire story?
Read the sentence.Recycling stops waste from going to landfills.What would make the best revision of this detail?
Why does Tennyson most likely structure the third and fifth stanzas the way that he does in "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
Which detail in Exploring the Titanic best helps the reader figure out what a bridge is?
Read this sentence from Exploring the Titanic.So to save time and make the search easier, I decided to look for the debris field, instead of the Titanic.Which sentence from the passage explains the meaning of debris field?
In which of the following ways are the third and fifth stanzas of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" structured similarly?
To find the central idea, a reader should ask
Read the two excerpts from section 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."Then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud splash; a frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark. The power of thought was restored; he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream. ***As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon—then all is darkness and silence!What does the motif of a loud sound represent in the story?
Why does Tennyson most likely make the fifth stanza longer than the third stanza of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
Read the sentences.Maxine felt very sad after she lost her lucky baseball cap. She looked throughout her house again and again, but she still couldn’t find it.
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