What can a writer describe about two characters to help develop their personalities?
Read the excerpt from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O anything, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness! serious vanity!Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!Still-waking sleep, that is not what it isThis love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Read the sentence.The shopkeeper smiled at David as if he were just telling a joke, but his disparaging comments made David feel insulted and embarrassed. Based on context clues in the sentence, what words most likely could replace disparaging, but still keep the meaning of the sentence the same? Select two options.upliftingfunnybelittlinguncomplimentaryhilarious
Read the passage.The headmistress of the boarding school was a buttoned-up, austere woman with a tightly wound, slate-gray bun at the top of her head and clunky black shoes on her feet. She made sure that our uniforms were complete at inspection every morning, and if one of us dared to wear a warmer pair of socks than the thin, oatmeal-colored ones we were issued, there would be trouble.What does the use of the word austere imply?
Read the passage from a story in The Arabian Nights Entertainments.The fisherman was very unhappy. "What an unlucky man I am to have freed you! I implore you to spare my life.""I have told you," said the genius, "that it is impossible. Choose quickly; you are wasting time."The fisherman began to devise a plot."Since I must die," he said, "before I choose the manner of my death, I conjure you on your honour to tell me if you really were in that vase?""Yes, I was," answered the genius."I really cannot believe it," said the fisherman. "That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing."Then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside. Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well, unbelieving fisherman, here I am in the vase; do you believe me now?"
After the high point of a story, what includes the resolution of the conflict?
Which elements does strong narrative writing always contain? Check all that apply.a connection to an outlinea series of stepsa clear point of viewa set of directionsa description of events
Which paragraphs from the excerpt best support the conclusion that the author’s primary purpose is to teach a lesson? Select two options.
Read the passage.The woman in the last apartment down the hall was somewhat of a misanthrope, according to most people in Keira's building. She almost never came out of her apartment, but when she did, she answered hellos with a glare, as if she were being insulted. Keira was sure that she could find a way to get to know the woman, if only she could figure out how to invite herself into the woman's apartment to chat.Based on inferences, what is the most likely meaning of misanthrope?
Which scenario is an example of a theme for a story?
Which event is part of the rising action in "Little Snow White"?
Which quotations from "The Crab That Played with the Sea" convey a comic tone? Select two options."O my Best Beloved""He took the Elephant—All-the-Elephant-there-was—and said, 'Play at being an Elephant.'""All-the-Cow-there-was . . . licked her tongue round a whole forest at a time.""The great Sea . . . overflowed all the dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded the Man’s house.""By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the Perak river."
Read the excerpt from "The Crab That Played with the Sea.”And the Rat said, ‘I am too busy biting through the line that this old Fisherman is spinning. I do not play with the Sea.’ And he went on biting the line.Then the little girl-daughter put up her little soft brown arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said, ‘O Eldest Magician! when my father here talked to you at the Very Beginning, and I leaned upon his shoulder while the beasts were being taught their plays, one beast went away naughtily into the Sea before you had taught him his play.And the Eldest Magician said, ‘How wise are little children who see and are silent! What was the beast like?’
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