Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the role of irony, sarcasm, and paradox in literary works.
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the function of symbolism, allegory, and allusions in literary works.
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Read the following from paragraph 8. Why does the author use personification in this quotation?
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The baseball game symbolizes the love of the family.
The author is showing the distance the ball has traveled.
The author is comparing the ball to a bird.
The description mimics the boy's disappointment.
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Which paragraph from the selection provides imagery that gives a sense of the father's personality?
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Paragraph 7
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 13
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Read the following from paragraph 8. Why does the author use personification in this quotation?
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Which paragraph from the selection provides imagery that gives a sense of the father's personality?
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The descriptions of Mrs. Lapidus and Gogol in paragraph 3 create a contrast between a -
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The author compares the pieces of her grandfather's collection to "dear old friends" in paragraph 2 to suggest that the grandfather -
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Read this quotation from paragraph 12. How is irony demonstrated in this quotation?
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What does the act of buying and selling the gold nugget represent?
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In line 14, it is significant to the theme of the poem that the birds are at the feeder because this shows that they are -
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What is the primary purpose of the selection?
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The author refers to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in order to -
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Why does the author directly address the reader in paragraphs 21 through 27?
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In paragraph 4, the simile indicates that the foreigner -
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Read this sentence from paragraph 16.
What is the most likely reason why the author includes this description of the foreigner's
actions?
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In lines 9 through 17, the poet uses descriptive language that emphasizes -
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In the poem, the fox is a symbol of -
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In which quotation does the author use descriptive language to show her unexpected awe?
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Paragraph 10 builds upon the theme of -
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For Marie-Laure, the chestnut tree in paragraphs 15 and 16 symbolizes -
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In line 7, the act of stepping over barbed wire represents the speaker's -
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The simile in line 11 -
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Read this sentence from paragraph 5. In this sentence, the author uses a metaphor to describe the -
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In paragraph 2, the "first frost" represents the -
