Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
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.
Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.Their thick skulls bled with rancorwhen the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quipsyou could trace to the Sonnets, or the Moor’s eclipse.
Which is part of the final step of making an effective rebuttal?
Which statement best explains the function of an e-mail subject line?
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.
A speaker uses logos to persuade the audience when
What is the purpose of transition words in persuasive writing?
Read the excerpt from a letter.Dear Ann,The funniest thing happened during my ski lesson! I tried a new ski run and I was doing very well. The sun was shining and the snow was fresh. My instructor encouraged me to bring my skis closer together so I could gain a little speed. I don’t know exactly what happened next, but suddenly my skis had criss-crossed and I was skiing backward!
Read the excerpt from "Ghost House."The whippoorwill is coming to shoutAnd hush and cluck and flutter about
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Based on the passage, what are the best ways to describe Tom Sawyer’s character? Select 3 options.
Which excerpt from "Ghost House" uses both alliteration and assonance to add emphasis?
Which line from "Ghost House" summarizes the speaker’s overall perspective?
Which excerpt from Tom Sawyer allows the reader to infer the time of year?
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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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