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Capitals and Commas — Unit test

Question 3 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B

Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”It was in an empty lotRinged by elms and fir and honeysuckle.Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket,Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first,His t-shirt riding up over his gut,Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it upIn the field, a blue sky above themTipped with cirrus.The imagery in this excerpt appeals mostly to the reader’s sense of

Answer
A
smell.
B
touch.
C
sound.
D
sight.

Explanation

The excerpt creates a picture of the scene through visual details: the empty lot, the elms and fir trees, the players’ clothing and appearance, and the blue sky with cirrus clouds. These details appeal mostly to the reader’s sense of sight. Although the players are talking, sound is not the main focus.

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