Question 11

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Question 12
Scholars long believed Homer was a poet who was blind and who sang his epic works
rather than writing them down. more recent scholarship suggests that
Homer was not blind and wrote revisions of stories that had been in existence for
hundreds of years.
A) Which distinction best completes the sentence? Select the correct answer
from the list. (1 point)
A) Which is the purpose of an infographic? (1 point)
to emphasize a particular item in a list
to introduce the topic of a section of text
to summarize or explain a graphic
to combine text with different types of graphics
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Question 13
I am all alone in the house to-night;
They would not have gone away
Had they known of the terrible, bloodless
fight
I have held with my heart to-day.
With the old sweet love and the old fierce
pain
I have battled hour by hour;
But the fates have willed that the strife is
vain.
Alone in the hour my thoughts have reign,
And I yield myself to their power.
A) How does the rhyme and meter in
the stanzas affect the meaning?
(1 point)
They mimic the speaker's
emotions by creating a chaotic
pattern.
They contradict the speaker's
struggle by creating a songlike
pattern.
They follow sonnet form to
suggest the importance of the
speaker's struggle.
They use iambic pentameter to
highlight the speaker's backand-forth thoughts.
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Question 14
A)
Use the paragraph to answer the question.
The data presented in this paper has shown that the water situation in the
American West will continue to get more perilous unless something is
done, now. This part of the country has always been significantly drier
than the eastern regions, but over the last few decades, things have
definitely gone from bad to worse.
Which concluding statement could the author write if they decided to use the
statistic strategy?
(1 point)
That’s why everyone needs to step up and do their part to save, protect, and
preserve water by turning off the tap instead of just letting it run, by installing
xeriscaping in their yards, and relying less on hydroelectric power.
As the introduction indicates, the west will be a bleak moonscape unless water
is preserved in the American West, and just as on the moon, this region will be
uninhabitable since water is the source of all life.
The keynote speaker at a recent meeting of the Western Governors warned,
“Conservation is not just a good idea, it’s the only idea,” and she urged
attendees to learn how to conserve water in their culinary, agricultural, and
industrial use if they want to continue living in the West.
The US Department of Agriculture reports that as of July 2022, more than 32
percent of land in western states experienced extreme or exceptional drought
and predicted that without intervention the land would just keep getting drier
and drier; if this trend continues the West could eventually become
unhabitable.
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Question 15
The Oval
Portrait
by Edgar Allen Poe
The chateau into which my valet had
ventured to make forcible entrance, rather
than permit me, in my desperately
wounded condition, to pass a night in the
open air, was one of those piles of
commingled gloom and grandeur which
have so long frowned among the
Appenines, not less in fact than in the
fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance
it had been temporarily and very lately
abandoned. We established ourselves in
one of the smallest and least
sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay
in a remote turret of the building. Its
decorations were rich, yet tattered and
antique.
"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe
A)
Use the passage to answer the
question.
Which detail from the excerpt infers
that the narrator and his valet are
trespassing at the chateau?
(1 point)
The chateau appears to be
abandoned.
The chateau is much different
from other buildings in the
area.
They stop at the chateau
without planning to do so.
They stay in a remote part of
the chateau.

Answer 1

Here are the answers to your questions:

Question 11 A) For Question 11, the question appears to be incomplete. However, if you're referencing the purpose of an infographic, the answer is likely: to combine text with different types of graphics.

Question 12 A) The rhyme and meter in the stanzas affect the meaning: They contradict the speaker's struggle by creating a songlike pattern. This reflects the emotional contrast between the chaos of the speaker's inner turmoil and the lyrical quality of the poem.

Question 13 A) The concluding statement the author could write if they decided to use the statistic strategy is: The US Department of Agriculture reports that as of July 2022, more than 32 percent of land in western states experienced extreme or exceptional drought and predicted that without intervention the land would just keep getting drier and drier; if this trend continues the West could eventually become uninhabitable. This draws on statistics to reinforce the argument.

Question 14 A) The detail from the excerpt that infers the narrator and his valet are trespassing at the chateau is: The chateau appears to be abandoned. This suggests that they have entered without permission or knowledge of the owners.

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