Read the definition.conclusion: the last partWhat is the root word of conclusion?
Which document would most likely use informal language?
Read the passage.Novels, poetry, and drama are all genres, or types, of literature. These genres can reveal important insights about human nature, as well as protest injustices in the world or make social criticisms. The authors of literary pieces use characters, setting, and plot to analyze themes such as love, maturity, and death. Which audience would this passage be most appropriate for?
Read the sentence.The newspaper my dad reads each day is a credible source of information. Based on the suffix, -ible, what does the word “credible” mean?
Read the sentences. I was so excited for school to end and for summer vacation to begin. My grandpa and I were going to begin building a new fence around my backyard. I was really looking forward to spending the time with my grandpa. Which best describes the style of this text?
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Here, Mrs. Fairfax is talking to Jane."Yet you know in winter-time one feels dreary quite alone in the best quarters. I say alone—Leah is a nice girl to be sure, and John and his wife are very decent people; but then you see they are only servants, and one can’t converse with them on terms of equality: one must keep them at due distance, for fear of losing one’s authority.”
Read the letter.Dear Aunt May,I loved seeing you this week. I know that it was a sad event, but it was wonderful to see you and Chris. I can’t wait to see you again soon. Love,MicheleWhich type of language is used in this letter?
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.As I was going upstairs to fetch my portfolio and pencils, Mrs. Fairfax called to me: "Your morning school-hours are over now, I suppose,” said she. She was in a room the folding-doors of which stood open: I went in when she addressed me. It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Mrs. Fairfax was dusting some vases of fine purple spar, which stood on a sideboard."What a beautiful room!” I exclaimed, as I looked round; for I had never before seen any half so imposing."Yes; this is the dining-room. I have just opened the window, to let in a little air and sunshine; for everything gets so damp in apartments that are seldom inhabited; the drawing-room yonder feels like a vault.”
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.My head still ached and bled with the blow and fall I had received: no one had reproved John for wantonly striking me; and because I had turned against him to avert farther irrational violence, I was loaded with general opprobrium [harsh criticism]."Unjust!—unjust!” said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power.
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Here, Helen is talking about Miss Temple.Miss Temple is full of goodness; it pains her to be severe to any one, even the worst in the school: she sees my errors, and tells me of them gently; and, if I do anything worthy of praise, she gives me my meed liberally. One strong proof of my wretchedly defective nature is, that even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure me of my faults; and even her praise, though I value it most highly, cannot stimulate me to continued care and foresight.
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."Its evidence -- the evidence of the sentience -- was to be seen, he said, (and here I started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him -- what he was. Such opinions need no comment, and I will make none.Based on this excerpt, the narrator seems
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."I dared not -- oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! -- I dared not -- I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them -- many, many days ago -- yet I dare not -- I dared not speak! What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
How is a root word used to understand a text?
Read the excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 5 of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott."What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?" asked Meg one snowyafternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubberboots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in theother."Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in hereyes."I should think two long walks this morning would have been enough!It's cold and dull out, and I advise you to stay warm and dry by thefire, as I do," said Meg with a shiver."Never take advice! Can't keep still all day, and not being apussycat, I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'mgoing to find some."Which best explains why Alcott begins the chapter with one character asking another character a question?
In Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick, which ailment of humankind is best symbolized by Ahab’s plight?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."[S]he succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer; and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain -- that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more. How does this excerpt provide information about the narrator of the story?
Read the excerpt from “Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe.And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more."What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from a short story.I thanked her again for the cake, and quietly retreated from the porch. A blast of air conditioning assailed me as I reentered our home and closed the summer heat behind me. Placing the cake on the table with the others, I noted its carefully scalloped frosting with mounting sadness. Clutching the doorjamb, I suppressed a sob. The reality of our loss would wait.Which words from the excerpt convey the tone?
Read the excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture."I began to undress, but in spite of every effort I could not keep myself from stealing a glance every now and then at the picture; and a glance was now sufficient to distress me. Even when my back was turned to it, the idea of this strange face behind me, peering over my shoulder, was insufferable. I threw off my clothes and hurried into bed; but still this visage gazed upon me.What effect does the tone of the excerpt have on the reader?
Read the excerpt from Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick.It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.Melville’s description of Ahab’s scar in this excerpt best develops which theme in the novel?
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