Read the excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier's Home.” In the evening he practiced on his clarinet, strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters. His mother would have given him breakfast in bed if he had wanted it. She often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered. What important detail about Krebs’s sisters and mother is revealed?
Read the sentence. The patient who was not feeling well told the doctor her head hurt and that she was experiencing blurry vision with her eyesight. Which answer choice is the best revision of the sentence to avoid repetition?
Which best describes the purpose of style in writing?
Read the sentence. My daily routine—the things I do every day—consists of studying, exercising, and working. What is the best way to rewrite the sentence to avoid repetition?
Read the sentence. After sampling a few cake samples, the woman who is getting married picked the flavor of cake that she liked the best. Which answer choice is the best revision of the sentence to avoid repetition?
Read the sentence. The group of friends came to a consensus about which movie they would agree to see together. What is the best way to rewrite the sentence to avoid repetition?
Read the excerpt. Mrs. Carter often explained to visitors how fortunate she had been to find the Wilkes family. They had stayed on her land longer than anyone before them, nearly five years now, and she considered that a rare blessing. Before their arrival, families came and went with each passing season, never settling long enough to be dependable. Since her husband had left years ago, Mrs. Carter depended on someone to help her walk the property lines and check the distant fences. When her daughter, Ellen, was asked to help instead, she would trudge along reluctantly, her expression sour and her replies clipped. “If you don’t want my help, just say so,” she would mutter. Mrs. Carter would sigh and wish, not for the first time, that someone else could share the burden of such a large and lonely stretch of land. Based on the excerpt, what inferences can be made about the story’s setting?
Read the sentence. When we returned to school after summer vacation, our teacher asked us to be prepared to share about our summer activities. Mark told us about his amazing visit to the Great Wall of China on Friday. What is the best way to revise the underlined sentence?
Which excerpt from O’Connor’s “Good Country People” best reveals the irony of the main character’s name, Joy?
Read the excerpt. My father had never met Andrzej, yet that morning he sent for the boy he had forbidden me to see to come into our house. Not a word had been spoken to me about these arrangements. This was my father, and of course I was not consulted. I was standing in the kitchen when I heard Andrzej’s voice at our door. My knees sank. Mama scrutinized me. I did not even look at his face. “Welcome, Andrzej. Please have a seat.” Papa offered him a chair. . . . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Determine the narrator’s point of view in Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz .
Read the excerpt from Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . Thrown off balance, struggling to keep from falling into the abyss below, I plummeted out of reach. Rolling down the steep incline, I grabbed at tree branches to break my fall as they ripped the mittens from my hands. Biting my tongue, I splashed into a stream with no cushion but ice-covered boulders. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Which best describes the impact of this excerpt that reflects Gelissen’s decision to tell her story in memoir form?
Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border. Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance. Who knew the border better than Andrzej?... “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” What assumptions can be made about the setting described in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Finally, Andrzej signaled for me to stand up. Slowly, bracing my hands against the river rocks, I stood. My legs were barely able to stand my weight, they were shaking so badly with cold and fear. Which best describes the impact of Gelissen’s first-person account of her experiences in the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz ?
Read the excerpt from Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Look at this image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus . Expand Image What idea is related in both excerpts?
Read the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” “I heard what happened last night, Mr. Kornreich. I understand your concern.” “I have no money to pay you for this favor.” “Sir, I would not take any money from you. She is my friend since childhood. I will do whatever you ask to help your daughter.” “Thank you.” Papa paused, stroking his chin where his beard should have been. “You seem like a man of your word. If you would bring Rena across the border to Slovakia, her mother and I might find sleep at night.” Which sentence best summarizes the excerpt?
The location of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is important because
Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month . Nick’s recent arrival at West Egg and his intention to stay for only a short time underscore the fact that
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms . The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there. In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator?
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms . We parked the cars beyond the brickyard. The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. There were three doctors that I knew. I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. Which best describes Hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt?
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