Which line best highlights Frodo’s loyal nature?
Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe."Awright! We know say you no get plenty money. But we sef no get even anini. So derefore make you open dis window and give us one hundred pound and we go commot."
Read the excerpt from "Digging."The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head.But I've no spade to follow men like them.Read the haiku by Bashō. Sickly,but somehow the chrysanthemum is budding. How do the senses used in the excerpt from "Digging" and the haiku affect a reader's understanding and interpretation of each?
recreates a historical eventrealistically represents lifedoes not depict the real worlddoes not include mythical creatures
Which pair of words best describes the setting of Bilbo Baggins’ party?
is the time, place, and environment in which the events of a text take place.
What should a student do first when determining which type of text to choose?
Which genre would a reader most likely choose to learn about a historical battle?
What must a reader do to analyze diction? Check all that apply.identify rhyme schemerecognize important wordsdetermine the denotation of each wordidentify the connotations of wordsdetermine the main idea of the poem
Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe.His children picked mangoes near the military cemetery and sold them to soldiers’ wives for a few pennies—real pennies this time—and his wife started making breakfast akara balls for neighbours in a hurry to start life again. With his family earnings he took his bicycle to the villages around and bought fresh palmwine which he mixed generously in his rooms with the water which had recently started running again in the public tap down the road, and opened up a bar for soldiers and other lucky people with good money.
Which sentence contains the best example of alliteration?
Which excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring shows an element of fantasy?
Which genre would be best for studying how a writer uses rhyme and rhythm?
Read the excerpt from "Digging."By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe.He got a destitute carpenter with one old hammer, a blunt plane and a few bent and rusty nails in his tool bag to turn this assortment of wood, paper and metal into door and window shutters for five Nigerian shillings or fifty Biafran pounds. He paid the pounds, and moved in with his overjoyed family carrying five heads on their shoulders.
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