Read the excerpt from "Bluesman on the Move.”All I want— to find a place where I fit in.
Read the excerpt from "Bluesman on the Move.”That long road behind me hascurved through trouble and joy—
Read the excerpt from "Bluesman on the Move.”In spring I ambled down a road of cherry trees, each more lonely than the last. I trudged through endless fields of high grass,seeking refuge from the unrelenting summer sun.
Read the excerpt from "Dorothea Lange.”Early on in her training, she steered clear of formal poses. She instead focused on capturing moments based in authenticity that were more than what met the eye.
Read the excerpt from "Dorothea Lange.”As a child on trips into New York City, Lange would say she had a "cloak of invisibility” that she used to watch all of the people around her on her long strolls. The independent young woman loved observing life around her.
How should a reader analyze indirect characterization? Select four options.by noticing adjectives that provide details describing the characterby noticing how the character interacts with other charactersby noticing details about what the character says, does, and thinksby noticing how the other characters perceive the characterby noticing the context, and use it to make inferences about the characterby noticing statements the narrator makes about the character’s personalityby noticing statements the narrator makes about the character’s appearance
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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" reveals Laura’s Dominican origin through unique pronunciation?
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Thanks, thanks a lot, Mom!" Yoyo stormed out of that room and into her own. Her daughters never called her Mom except when they wanted her to feel how much she had failed them in this country. She was a good enough Mami, fussing and scolding and giving advice, but a terrible girlfriend parent, a real failure of a Mom.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."iYa, ya!" She waved them out of her room at last. "There is no use trying to drink spilt milk, that's for sure."
Read the excerpt from “The Scarlet Ibis.”Daddy, Mama, and I went back to the dining-room table, but we watched Doodle through the open door. He took out a piece of string from his pocket and, without touching the ibis, looped one end around its neck. Slowly, while singing softly “Shall We Gather at the River,” he carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole in the flower garden, next to the petunia bed. Now we were watching him through the front window, but he didn’t know it. His awkwardness at digging the hole with a shovel whose handle was twice as long as he was made us laugh, and we covered our mouths with our hands so he wouldn’t hear.When Doodle came into the dining room, he found us seriously eating our cobbler.He was pale and lingered just inside the screen door. “Did you get the scarlet ibis buried?” asked Daddy.Doodle didn’t speak but just nodded his head.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".Yoyo didn't need much encouragement. She put her nose to the fire, as her mother would have said, and read from start to finish without looking up. When she concluded, she was a little embarrassed at the pride she took in her own words. She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother. Laura's face was radiant. Yoyo turned to share her pride with her father.
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Which excerpt from "Initiation” correctly matches with the implied resolution of the story?
Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best represents the preservation of Dominican values?
Read the excerpt from “The Scarlet Ibis.”The knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had come to naught was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us. The drops stung my face like nettles, and the wind flared the wet glistening leaves of the bordering trees. Soon I could hear his voice no more.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Ay, Cuquita." That was her communal pet name for whoever was in her favor. "Cuquita, when I make a million, buy you your very own typewriter." (Yoyo had been nagging her mother for one just like the one her father had bought to do his order forms at home.) "Gravy on the turkey" was what she called it when someone was buttering her up. She buttered and poured. "I'll hire you your very own typist."
One way an author uses direct characterization is by telling the reader about the character through
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Read the excerpt from "The Scarlet Ibis.”When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to try to move himself, straining terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. Trembling, he’d push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn-out doll. I can still see Mama watching him, her hand pressed tight across her mouth, her eyes wide and unblinking. But he learned to crawl (it was his third winter), and we brought him out of the front bedroom, putting him on the rug before the fireplace. For the first time he became one of us.
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