Which statement expresses a theme that is found in both "Escape" and "To Live"?
Which line from "Safari Day in Kenya” contains an example of assonance?
Which best describes the structure of the poem "Safari Day in Kenya”?
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya.”Hyenas slink before us, mottled bodies, eyes black iceZebras bright as painted ponies, the babes brown-striped, not black!
Read the excerpt from "Safari Day in Kenya.”Kimani stops at a watering hole, where hippos grunt in mud-baths,Baboons play in a nearby tree, like children out at camp.
Read the excerpts from the poem "Escape."And I wonderBut I don’t knowIf it’s all there***Ask youWhy? Because I don’t know***Like everybody seems to know moreAnd I still don’t know how
Read "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth.Earth has not any thing to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty:This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare,Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky;All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Read the excerpt from "John Burns of Gettysburg” by Bret Harte.And it was terrible. On the rightRaged for hours the heady fight,Thundered the battery's double brass,—Difficult music for men to face;While on the left—where now the gravesUndulate like the living wavesThat all the day unceasing sweptUp to the pits the rebels kept
Read the passage.After the snow stopped, the sun came out. I looked out the window to see whether there was any snow on the ground. And oh my, there was a lot of snow! I found that my car had been transformed into a snowy Kilimanjaro. Realizing I wouldn’t be leaving soon, I went to get a shovel.
Read the passage.Its rusted gate hung crookedly. Its broken windows let in the bugs. And its faded paint had peeled off in strips. Obviously, the building had been there since the dinosaur era.
Which sentence would change this interrogative to an indicative mood?John asked, “How did you bake that cake?”
Read the excerpt from "Escape."I look inside me and I don’t see itI don’t see the powerThe confidence you say I haveYou say I can do anythingThat I’m sure of myself and my intentionsAnd I wonderBut I don’t know
Which sentence is in the subjunctive mood?
Read the excerpt from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.Hear the tolling of the bells—Iron bells!What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!In the silence of the night,How we shiver with affrightAt the melancholy meaning of their tone!For every sound that floatsFrom the rust within their throatsIs a groan.
Choose the example that uses the interrogative mood.
Read the excerpt from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe. What a tale their terror tellsOf Despair!How they clang, and clash, and roar!What a horror they outpourOn the bosom of the palpitating air!
Which sentence is conditional but not subjunctive?
Read the excerpt from "Parsley” by Rita Dove.The general remembers the tiny green sprigs men of his village wore in their capes to honor the birth of a son. He willorder many, this time, to be killedfor a single, beautiful word.
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