Which sentence contains an example of a metaphor?
Nate is creating a PSA about building a "green” roof. Which source is most reliable for his research?
Which is a theme in Gentleman of Río en Medio?
Read the excerpt from "Aunty Misery.”La Tia Miseria was blamed by these people for their troubles, of course. Not wishing to be unfair, the old woman made a deal with her prisoner, Death: if he promised not ever to come for her again, she would give him his freedom. He agreed. And that is why there are two things you can always count on running into in this world: Misery and Death: La miseria y la muerte.Which element of an allegory is found in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."Teddy's eyes were fixed on his father, and all his father could do was to whisper, "Sit still, Teddy. You mustn't move. Teddy, keep still.” Then Rikki-tikki came up and cried: "Turn round, Nagaina; turn and fight!”"All in good time,” said she, without moving her eyes. "I will settle my account with you presently. Look at your friends, Rikki-tikki. They are still and white; they are afraid. They dare not move, and if you come a step nearer I strike.”Who is the antagonist in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."Nagaina gathered herself together, and flung out at him. Rikki-tikki jumped up and backward. Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the verandah, and she gathered herself together like a watch-spring. Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the matting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind.He had forgotten the egg. It still lay on the verandah, and Nagaina came nearer and nearer to it, till at last, while Rikki-tikki was drawing breath, she caught it in her mouth, turned to the verandah steps, and flew like an arrow down the path, with Rikki-tikki behind her. When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse's neck.How does the antagonist move the plot forward in this excerpt?
What is the purpose of this PSA?
Aidan is preparing a presentation on the dangers of distracted driving. Which tone is most appropriate for the audience of students in his high school?
Read the excerpt from "Aunty Misery.”Many years passed, and there were no deaths in the world. The people who make their living from death began to protest loudly. The doctors claimed no one bothered to come in for examinations or treatments anymore, because they did not fear dying; the pharmacists' business suffered too because medicines are, like magic potions, bought to prevent or postpone the inevitable; priests and undertakers were unhappy with the situation also, for obvious reasons. There were also many old folks tired of life who wanted to pass on to the next world to rest from miseries of this one.This excerpt expresses which symbolic message found in the allegorical folktale?
Which line from "Aunty Misery” contains a simile?
What new information could the reader learn if Gentleman of Río en Medio were told from Don Anselmo’s point of view?
Beth is preparing a presentation about Pablo Picasso’s art. Which use of multimedia would best help Beth connect to the emotions of her audience?
Read the excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel”Once upon a time there dwelt on the outskirts of a large forest a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children; the boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had always little enough to live on, and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he couldn’t even provide them with daily bread. One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry, he sighed and said to his wife: "What’s to become of us? How are we to support our poor children, now that we have nothing more for ourselves?” "I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; "early to-morrow morning we’ll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread; then we’ll go on to our work and leave them alone. They won’t be able to find their way home, and we shall thus be rid of them.” "No, wife,” said her husband, "that I won’t do; how could I find it in my heart to leave my children alone in the wood? The wild beasts would soon come and tear them to pieces.” "Oh! you fool,” said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, and you may just as well go and plane the boards for our coffins”; and she left him no peace till he consented. "But I can’t help feeling sorry for the poor children,” added the husband.
Read the excerpt from "Hansel and Gretel.”The children, too, had not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Gretel wept bitterly and spoke to Hansel: "Now it’s all up with us.” "No, no, Gretel,” said Hansel, "don’t fret yourself; I’ll be able to find a way of escape, no fear.” And when the old people had fallen asleep he got up, slipped on his little coat, opened the back door and stole out. The moon was shining clearly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like bits of silver. Hansel bent down and filled his pocket with as many of them as he could cram in. Then he went back and said to Gretel: "Be comforted, my dear little sister, and go to sleep: God will not desert us”; and he lay down in bed again.At daybreak, even before the sun was up, the woman came and woke the two children: "Get up, you lie-abeds, we’re all going to the forest to fetch wood.” She gave them each a bit of bread and spoke: "There’s something for your luncheon, but don’t you eat it up before, for it’s all you’ll get.” Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the stones in his pocket. Then they all set out together on the way to the forest. After they had walked for a little, Hansel stood still and looked back at the house, and this maneuver he repeated again and again. His father observed him, and [said]: "Hansel, what are you gazing at there, and why do you always remain behind? Take care, and don’t lose your footing.” "Oh! father,” said Hansel, "I am looking back at my white kitten, which is sitting on the roof, waving me a farewell.” The woman exclaimed: "What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten, that’s the morning sun shining on the chimney.” But Hansel had not looked back at his kitten, but had always dropped one of the white pebbles out of his pocket on to the path.
Which theme is found in "The Snow King”?
Which excerpt from “The Snow-Queen” is an example of personification?
What is a theme in "The Snow-Queen”?
Read the excerpt from “The Snow-Queen.”“Now I must fly to warmer countries,” said the Snow-queen. “I must go and powder my black kettles!” (This was what she called Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius.) “It does the lemons and grapes good.”And off she flew, and Kay sat alone in the great hall trying to do his puzzle.He sat so still that you would have thought he was frozen.Then it happened that little Gerda stepped into the hall. The biting cold winds became quiet as if they had fallen asleep when she appeared in the great, empty, freezing hall.She caught sight of Kay; she recognised him, and ran and put her arms round his neck, crying, “Kay! dear little Kay! I have found you at last!”But he sat quite still and cold. Then Gerda wept hot tears which fell on his neck and thawed his heart and swept away the bit of the looking-glass. He looked at her and then he burst into tears. He cried so much that the glass splinter swam out of his eye; then he knew her, and cried out, “Gerda! dear little Gerda! Where have you been so long? and where have I been?”
Read the excerpt from "The Snow-Queen.”"But cannot you give little Gerda something so that she can have power over her?”"I can give her no greater power than she has already; don't you see how great it is? Don't you see how men and beasts must help her when she wanders into the wide world with her bare feet? She is powerful already, because she is a dear little innocent child. If she cannot by herself conquer the Snow-queen and take away the glass splinters from little Kay, we cannot help her! The Snow-queen's garden begins two miles from here. You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow. Then you must come back here as fast as you can.”Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda on the reindeer and away he sped.
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