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Analyzing Layers of Meaning in The Surrender Tree

Question 3 • 2026-2027_MDCPS_1001375_English 3 B-CR

Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir.”In first grade we moved country mouse to the city whiskers quivering, eyes wide, couple days later Mom put my sister in the stroller and we three walked through a drizzle of gold and ruby leaves up one hill, down another to the new school, made of bricks, registered in the office, Mom handed me my lunch box and waved a fast goodbyeearthbound, "directionally challenged," "practice," "cemetary girl," and "driven" from SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson, copyright © 2019 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Used by permission of Viking Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Answer
A
“moved / country mouse to the city”
B
“whiskers quivering, eyes wide”
C
“drizzle of gold / and ruby leaves”
D
“Mom handed me / my lunch box”
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