Read this excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. It was just what I wanted, and I got it at a time when I the least expected it. Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Select the verb or verb phrase that is the best option to replace the verb watched in the following sentence.Kimo watched the waves, hoping to see the whale breach again.
Which sentence is written correctly?
In this passage, the author suggests that cruelty can occur when people face horrible conditions. Which evidence best supports this viewpoint? Select two options.
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.First she went to see if the hall-door was fastened; having taken the key from the lock, she led the way upstairs. The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house. A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of space and solitude; and I was glad, when finally ushered into my chamber, to find it of small dimensions, and furnished in ordinary, modern style.
Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Every city slaveholder is anxious to have it known of him, that he feeds his slaves well; and it is due to them to say, that most of them do give their slaves enough to eat. There are, however, some painful exceptions to this rule. Directly opposite to us, on Philpot Street, lived Mr. Thomas Hamilton. He owned two slaves. Their names were Henrietta and Mary. Henrietta was about twenty-two years of age, Mary was about fourteen; and of all the mangled and emaciated creatures I ever looked upon, these two were the most so. His heart must be harder than stone, that could look upon these unmoved.
Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night.Pressed tightly against one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories. Our minds numb with indifference.
Fill in the blank.I want ______ part in this group project because I want to do my own.
What can a writer describe about two characters to help develop their personalities?
Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of Night.And so an hour or two passed. Another scream jolted us. The woman had broken free of her bonds and was shouting louder than before:"Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere . . .”Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval:"Keep her quiet! Make that madwoman shut up. She’s not the only one here . . .”She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal. Her son was clinging desperately to her, not uttering a word. He was no longer crying.
Read the paragraph below.As the guest speaker, Mrs. Quinn, began her lecture, the auditorium seemed to heave a collective sigh as fifty close-packed bodies slunk lower in their seats. Yawns were barely stifled, sneakers scuffed the floor, and an occasional eye glanced toward the ceiling or toward the face of a wristwatch. A few leaned forward with elbows propped on knees, heads drooping. Mrs. Quinn continued in earnest, shuffling her paperwork on the podium and making brief eye contact with one glaze-eyed listener in the front row.
Which prefix changes the meaning of continental from "of a continent" to "going across a continent"?
Fill in the blank.My mom ______ me to go to the store.
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven. . . . My couch had no thorns in it that night; my solitary room no fears. At once weary and content, I slept soon and soundly: when I awoke it was broad day.
The prefix im- in the word impractical gives a clue that this word means
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