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Writing an Essay to Compare the Presentation of Ideas across Genres Answers

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Read these sentences from Yasmin's essay.Nazario believes that Central American children like Enrique who come to the United States today are refugees and should be treated that way. If they were, she says, such children would not repeatedly have to face the dangers of migration, which bring tears to my eyes.

A
"believes"
B
"come to"
C
"the dangers of migration"
D
"which bring tears to my eyes"
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Read the sentence from Skylar’s comparative essay, and decide how they can edit informal, subjective language. The narrative becomes scarier when Enrique can no longer keep his eyes open.

A
more spooky
B
more frightening
C
more worrisome
D
more suspenseful
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What can be inferred about the rest of the essay from this sentence? Select four options.

A
The essay compares movies and books.
B
The preceding paragraph was about crime movies.
C
The essay compares genres of visual crime fiction.
D
The essay shows that movies are more artistic than television.
E
This paragraph will offer details about episodic crime series.
F
The later paragraphs will present a comparison of the genres.
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Which details are important to notice when comparing and contrasting two texts from different genres? Select three options.

A
the characters’ clothing
B
the point of view
C
the author’s name
D
the language use
E
the author’s purpose
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Which quotations from Enrique's Journey provide evidence supporting Hafiza's point that this text is a biography? Select two options.

A
"The Iron Worm squeaks, groans, and clanks—black tankers, rust-colored boxcars, and gray hoppers winding north on a single track that parallels the Pacific coast."
B
"Enrique's palms burn when he holds on to the hopper. He risks riding no-hands. Finally, he strips off his shirt and sits on it."
C
"Enrique's head throbs. The sun reflects off the metal. It stings his eyes, and his skin tingles. It drains the little energy he has left."
D
"About two hundred street gangsters in Chiapas share the rolling criminal enterprise. Father Flor María Rigoni, the priest at the Albergue Belén migrant shelter, counts nineteen groups."
E
"'We ask for money to take people to the U.S. on top of our trains,' says Jorge Mauricio Mendoza Pineda, twenty-four, describing what he and his Mara Salvatrucha gang do in Chiapas."
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Read the excerpt from Daniel’s comparative essay.(1) Despite the many features shared by short and long fiction, the structure of a short story is very different from that of a novel. (2) A short story follows the rule of one. (3) It's about one person, and one important thing happens. (4) In contrast, a novel has time to develop many characters and explore many events.

A
It focuses on one main character and one main plot event.
B
That is, short stories just look at one character and one thing.
C
It talks about one main character and one important thing that happens.
D
What I mean is it centers on a main character and a single plot occurrence.
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What are the primary functions of body paragraphs in a comparative essay that focuses on genres? Select four options.

A
to present the writer's arguments in a logical order
B
to provide evidence that supports the writer's ideas
C
to analyze the texts, ideas, or objects being compared
D
to anticipate disagreement and provide counterarguments
E
to highlight similarities between the texts being discussed
F
to point out differences between the texts being discussed
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Which in-text citation is correctly formatted in MLA style?

A
(Smith 179)
B
(Smith 2015)
C
(Smith, 2015)
D
(Smith, p. 179)
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Read this paragraph from Yves's analysis of Enrique's Journey.(1) Nazario draws on Enrique's experience to illustrate what children face in their attempt to escape difficult conditions. (2) She describes the dangers he faces on his journey northward. (3) The threat of extortion and violence from gangsters illustrates how vulnerable such children are. (4) But gangsters do not pose the only threat. (5) Even the police, whose job is to uphold and enforce the law, steal from the migrants. (6) What I find most unsettling, though, is Enrique's temporary alliance with an MS gangster.

A
the first sentence
B
the third sentence
C
the fifth sentence
D
the sixth sentence
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Selena wrote this topic sentence in her analysis of Enrique's Journey.The writer shows why it is dangerous for migrants to sleep during their trip north.

A
"Enrique's head throbs. The sun reflects off the metal. It stings his eyes, and his skin tingles. It drains the little energy he has left."
B
"For a while, he stands on a narrow ledge at the end of a fuel tanker. It is just inches above the wheels. He cannot let himself fall asleep; one good shake of the train, and he would tumble off."
C
"The MS control the tops of freight trains operating north of the Rio Suchiate, where many migrants going to the United States begin their trek through Mexico. They rob migrants riding the trains."
D
"Fear, he realizes, helps to keep him awake, so he decides to induce it. He climbs to the top of the tank car and takes a running leap. With arms spread, as if he were flying, he jumps to one swaying boxcar, then to another."

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