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By the time the United States withdrew troops from Vietnam in 1975, public opinion had turned against the Vietnam War. O’Brien and Komunyakaa wrote these texts about ten years after the war ended. How do O’Brien and Komu...
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My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn’t dammit: No tears. I’m stone. I’m flesh. —“Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa All I could do was gape at the fact of the young man’s body. Even now I haven...
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I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap’s white flash. —“Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa The grenade made a popping noise — not soft but not loud either — not what I’d expected — and there was a puff of dust a...
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A white vet’s image floats closer to me, then his pale eyes look through mine. I’m a window. He’s lost his right arm inside the stone. —“Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa Which device is “I’m a window” an example of? The narr...
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Think about the title “Facing It.” Check all of the possible meanings of the word “it” in the title. the memorial the direction of Vietnam life after the war the reality of the author’s experience
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Why is a free verse poem an effective structure to present truth? Check all of the boxes that apply to “Facing It.” Free verse allows the author to present his ideas without formal constraints. Free verse allows the read...
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What “truths” are presented in this poem? Check all of the appropriate boxes. The poem expresses true emotions. The speaker does not like what the wall at the memorial represents. The speaker still suffers tension caused...
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I’m stone. I’m flesh. My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. I turn this way – the stone lets me go. —“Facing It,” Yusef Komunyakaa Identify each line as simile,...
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Based on what you know about structure and sequence in this short story, why do you think the main character says, “This is why I keep writing war stories”? He wants to use writing to discover the truth about his experie...
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Which of the following structures is most simplistic? Sequential presentation Flashback Frame story or multiple points of view Multiple switches between action and commentary
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Tim O’Brien is the narrator of “Ambush,” but the author (Tim O’Brien) does not actually have a daughter. How do you feel about this fact? It proves that the events in the story are not true. It makes the story more inter...
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Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” ——Ah me how but it was a hell and now I had the whole thing to myself, and make my raisin toast by sitting it on a little wire I'd especially bent to place over the hot plate W...
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Kerouac’s personal experiences and interests show his skill as a writer was inspired by his athleticism as a football player and his competitive spirit. knowledge of manual labor and the process of work. study of romanti...
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——oldtimers of the telegraph wired wood Frisco in the fog gray top time sitting in their brown sunk sea and will be there when this afternoon my face flushed from the sun, which at eight’ll flame out and make sunbaths fo...
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On the floor’s my shoes, big lumberboot flopjack workshoes to colomp over rockbed with and not turn the ankle——solidity shoes that when you put them on, yokewise, you know you’re working now and so for same reason shoes...
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Read the sentence taken from an argumentative essay on space exploration. Space exploration would cost a ton of money, but I would probably learn a lot of new things, so it’s probably worth it. Which of the following is...
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Read the excerpt from Studies of Trees, by Jacob Levison. The pines are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and include about 80 distinct species with over 600 varieties. The species enumerated here ar...
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When addressing a counterclaim in an argumentative essay, it is important to consider how the counterclaim reinforces the main position of your argument. include details and statistics that support the counterclaim. show...
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Which of the following ideas did you include in your response? Check all of the boxes that apply to your answer. Whitman’s “America of love” no longer exists. Whitman would not recognize America in the 1950s. The speaker...
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The final line of the poem asks Whitman about the America he experienced one hundred years ago. What meaning does Ginsberg convey by ending the poem this way?
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Identify a feeling that Ginsberg conveys with his use of style, structure, and theme. envy toward the shopping families and for their cars and homes resentment toward the changes of the modern world a sense that the spea...
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The poem reflects Ginsberg’s relationship to Whitman by showing Ginsberg’s belief that he is continuing down Whitman’s lonely path. desire to know Whitman in the 1950s. belief that Whitman could redeem the modern era.
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What “enumerations” does Ginsberg list?
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Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solit...
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