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Analyzing Language in a Personal Narrative

Question 1 • PA-Common Core ELA 8 Q1

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of finding none which I should relish less than the one which I was leaving. If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.

Answer
A
to enjoy
B
an appetizer
C
to suffer
D
a pleasing flavor

Explanation

Here, “relish” means to enjoy or like something. Douglass says he expected to find no other home he would like less than the one he was leaving. The hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness he feared would have happened even if he had stayed.

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