Creating a Public Service Advertisement — Unit test Answers

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Which statement is an example of a similarity between “A Smart Cookie” and “An Hour with Abuelo”?

When an author uses hyperbole, the author

Which statements describe the poem? Select three options.

Read the passages from “A Smart Cookie” by Sandra Cisneros and “An Hour with Abuelo” by Judith Ortiz Cofer.I could’ve been somebody, you know? my mother says and sighs. She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera. She knows how to fix a TV. But she doesn’t know which subway train to take to get downtown.When I came back to the island, things had changed. You had to have a college degree to teach school. . . . I became a farmer. I married a good woman who gave me many good children. I taught them all how to read and write before they started school.

Read the passage.The wind sang to them softly, as the couple watched a sunset blossom like a rose unfolding across the sky. They thought it was the most special sunset in the history of sunsets. They floated on water that was a smooth mirror, refusing to return to the shore until the light show was over. Years later, when they were long in the tooth, they would still remember that evening.

Read the passage.From the start, he felt like a fish out of water at the new school. The other students had been there for at least a year. They knew where all the classrooms were. They knew the routines the teachers liked them to follow. He, however, was learning everything for the first time.

Look at this public service advertisement.

Which sentence is subjunctive and conditional?

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Writers use figurative language instead of literal language to

In “A Smart Cookie,” Esperanza’s mother quit high school, but in “An Hour with Abuelo,” Arturo’s abuelo finished high school.This is an example of

Read the excerpt from "Ring Out, Wild Bells” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light:The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.