Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming has just expressed disapproval of how his commanding officers lead, which he believes caused his regiment to lose the battle they had recently fought."Well, then, if we fight like the devil an’ don’t ever whip, it must be the general’s fault,” said the youth grandly and decisively. "And I don’t see any sense in fighting and fighting and fighting, yet always losing through some derned old lunkhead of a general.”A sarcastic man who was tramping at the youth’s side, then spoke lazily. "Mebbe yeh think yeh fit th’ hull battle yestirday, Fleming,” he remarked.The speech pierced the youth. Inwardly he was reduced to an adject pulp by these chance words. His legs quaked privately. He cast a frightened glance at the sarcastic man."Why, no,” he hastened to say in a conciliating voice "I don’t think I fought the whole battle yesterday.”
Read the excerpts from The Red Badge of Courage. In the first excerpt, Henry Fleming decides to enlist in the Union Army. In the second excerpt, Henry has been with his regiment for a short time.Excerpt 1:At last, however, he had made firm rebellion against this yellow light thrown upon the color of his ambitions. The newspapers, the gossip of the village, his own picturings, had aroused him to an uncheckable degree. They were in truth fighting finely down there. Almost every day the newspaper printed accounts of a decisive victory.One night, as he lay in bed, the winds had carried to him the clangoring of the church bell as some enthusiast jerked the rope frantically to tell the twisted news of a great battle. This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement. Later, he had gone down to his mother’s room and had spoken thus: "Ma, I’m going to enlist.”Excerpt 2:In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.
What is ambiguity?
What is a metaphor?
Read the passages from Lord of the Flies by William Golding.Passage 1Indignation took away Ralph’s control."I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!”"But we want meat!”"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don’t even notice the huts!”"I was working too—”"But you like it!” shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt! While I—”They faced each other on the bright beach, astonished at the rub of feeling. Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand. From beyond the platform came the shouting of the hunters in the swimming pool. On the end of the platform, Piggy was lying flat,looking down into the brilliant water."People don’t help much.”He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.Passage 2"You got to be tough now. Make 'em do what you want.”Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem."If I blow the conch and they don’t come back, then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.”"If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway. I can’t see what they’re doing but I can hear.”The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. They were chanting something and littluns that had had enough were staggering away, howling. Ralph raised the conch to his lips and then lowered it.
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Ralph is speaking."The trouble is: Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?”"’Course there aren’t.”"Why not?”"’Cos things wouldn’t make sense. Houses an’ streets, an’—TV—they wouldn’t work.”The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm."But s’pose they don’t make sense? Not here, on this island? Supposing things are watching us and waiting?”Ralph shuddered violently and moved closer to Piggy, so that they bumped frighteningly."You stop talking like that! We got enough trouble, Ralph, an’ I’ve had as much as I can stand. If there is ghosts—”"I ought to give up being chief. Hear 'em.”"Oh lord! Oh no!”Piggy gripped Ralph’s arm."If Jack was chief he’d have all hunting and no fire. We’d be here till we died.”
Which sentence contains an example of personification?
Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming and his regiment are leaving an unsuccessful battle, and Henry is discussing their performance and their leadership."Good Gawd,” the youth grumbled, "we’re always being chased around like rats! It makes me sick. Nobody seems to know where we go or why we go. We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it’s done for. It makes a man feel like a . . . kitten in a bag. Now, I’d like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us. We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briers, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it. Don’t tell me it’s just luck! I know better.
Which excerpt from "Yearbook” is an example of direct characterization?
Read the excerpt from "Yearbook.”She wouldn’t characterize herself as shy; it’s just that she thought of herself as an individual, as opposed to being dependent on others. It was safer and easier that way, especially since her best friend Clara had unexpectedly moved to California last summer. Just Fatima doing Fatima’s thing—a club of one.
Read the conclusion to "Yearbook.”"Listen, let’s find Mr. Macklenburger and we’ll figure out an interesting role for you. Maybe you can help me interview the drama club tomorrow—just take pictures and I’ll do all the talking. But only if you want, absolutely no pressure,” said Martina."Sure, that sounds like it might be a fun way to contribute,” Fatima replied, grateful for Martina’s generosity. The dread of the afternoon was finally beginning to dissipate into something surprising and new.
Read the excerpt from "Yearbook.”"Excuse me?” Fatima, rattled by Isaac’s immediate bossiness, wasn’t sure how to appropriately respond.Isaac oppressively barreled on despite Fatima’s interjection. "And then you need to scan everything and label each image with an assigned number before entering it into the archives.”
Read the excerpt from "The Thing about Terry.”I’ve got it! I grinI’ve got just the surpriseI rush to tell them,Feeling happy and wise
Read the excerpt from "The Thing about Terry.”We work four long hours Nervous stomachs a-churnThen sneak into the closetTo await her return
Which elements of narrative poetry are reflected in "The Thing about Terry”? Select 4 options.rhymingabstract languagerhythmfree versesettingstanzas
Read this excerpt from "The Mysterious Stranger" using comprehension strategies.The romantic character of the place delighted me; I was very much amused by the air of adventure and intrigue that prevailed in this region of masks and gondolas; and I was exceedingly smitten by a pair of languishing black eyes, that played upon my heart from under an Italian mantle. So I persuaded myself that I was lingering at Venice to study men and manners. At least I persuaded my friends so, and that answered all my purpose.What statement best describes the narrator in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from chapter 41 of Moby-Dick using comprehension strategies.If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.What is the meaning of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Bluesman on the Move.”I might look old, but like I said,I’m new here.And if I’m ever gonna get where I’m going, I have to keep moving.
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