Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.
Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery.
Which lines from the poem "Digging” use assonance? Check all that apply.The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:Bends low, comes up twenty years awayBy God, the old man could handle a spade.Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Read the excerpt from "Digging."The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slapOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edgeThrough living roots awaken in my head.But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.
Read the paragraph.North Run High School hosts a wide variety of clubs. Some clubs are academic, such as the debate club, foreign-language clubs, and the chess team. Other clubs are service-oriented, such as the Key Club. The most popular club at North Run is the Future Business Leaders of America, which boasts 165 members.
Based on the author’s allusions in Midsummer to "the child’s fairy tale,” "fairy rings,” and "thatched cottages fenced with dog roses,” readers can tell that the speaker
Which line best helps readers identify a countryside setting?
Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Select 3 options.
contextdialectsettingtheme
fearhappinesshopelonging
Which line from "Ghost House" summarizes the speaker’s overall perspective?
Which excerpt from "Ghost House" uses both alliteration and assonance to add emphasis?
Read the excerpt from "Ghost House."The whippoorwill is coming to shoutAnd hush and cluck and flutter about
Which excerpt from Tom Sawyer allows the reader to infer the time of year?
"Bother! Well, go ’long with you. I’d made sure you’d played hookey and been a-swimming.”
creedssufficedharborenergy
celebrateshallassumebelongs
impartialityindifferenceperspectivepopularity
Read the passage from "Song of Myself."You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
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