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You have read an excerpt from How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston. Analyze how Hurston tells stories from her childhood and family’s past to describe her racial identity. Be sure to use evidence from the...
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You owe $3,450.00. Which credit limit gives you an acceptable debt ratio?
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Read the passage from How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day. Hence, it seems to me, the first business of the day should be to put the mind through its paces. You look after your body, inside and out; you run grave dang...
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38 39 40 Time Remaining 02:46:56 Read the passage from "The Tiger.” Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? The author uses imagery to help th...
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Read the passage from How to Live Twenty-Four Hours a Day. "What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?” Precisely. Nothing simpler! Which phrase most he...
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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is useless, and the time awfully fails me, to prolong this description; no one has ever suffered such torments . . . How does this excerpt connect to...
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Read the lines from "Song VII" by Rabindranath Tagore. My poet’s vanity dies in shame before thy sight. O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Which words show that the lyric poem is written from the perspective of...
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Read the excerpt from Amit’s essay. In the mid-2010s, it was predicted that by 2020, self-driving cars would be prevalent on the nation’s highways. Automotive manufacturers agreed, proclaiming that they would have cars d...
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Read the sentence. The shop next door, which is family owned, creates specially made, chocolate covered desserts. Which part of the sentence should be hyphenated? “next door” “family owned” “specially made” “chocolate co...
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Which are examples of strong evidence that could be used to support a claim in a debate? Check all that apply. anecdotes examples facts opinions statistics Mark this and return
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Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle. Older cousins show me how to shake the mule’s quijada, to make the blunt teeth rattle. Guitars. Drums. Gourds. Sticks. A cow bell. A washboard. Pretty soon, we ha...
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Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more...
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Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?” Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their ma...
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Read the excerpt from "On Imagination” by Phillis Wheatley. Winter austere forbids me to aspire, And northern tempests damp the rising fire; They chill the tides of Fancy’s flowing sea, Cease then, my song, cease the une...
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One way a Lincoln-Douglas debate differs from a policy debate is that in a Lincoln-Douglas debate, two individuals compete, whereas in a policy debate, teams of two compete. teams of two compete, whereas in a policy deba...
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Read Mustafa’s introduction to his argumentative essay. Do you ever feel like everywhere you look you are bombarded by advertising? There are video advertisements during TV shows, in cell phone apps, and on the Internet....
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Read the sentence from the body paragraph of an argumentative essay. Moreover, being constantly exposed to advertising is annoying. What is the best revision of the sentence that avoids the misconception? Moreover, being...
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Read the sentence. The famous artist and sculptor Michelangelo sculpted the statue David in Italy in the early 1500s. The best reason for the writer to revise this sentence to be in the passive voice is to emphasize the...
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Which sentence contains a split infinitive? It is important to wear plenty of sunscreen at an outdoor swim meet. The coach tells the swimmers how to improve their performance. Parents drive to the local swim club so they...
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When a sentence uses , the subject of the sentence performs the action of the verb. Mark this and return
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Read the sentence. Head toward the large yellow sign to find the lemon grove. Which word is a preposition? head toward yellow lemon Mark this and return
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Read the sentence. When she arrived at the concert hall, the singer walked through a crowd of cheering fans. Which word is a preposition? she at walked crowd Mark this and return
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Read the sentence. Jameson dropped and broke the cookie jar while his parents were on vacation. What is the best explanation for why the writer would revise this sentence to use passive voice? The writer does not know wh...
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Which sentence contains an infinitive? Will you take the package to Sheila? We walked to town with Grandma. Please forward that photo to me. It is normal to make mistakes. Mark this and return
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Read the sentence. Mr. Liu is shopping for the perfect shelf on which to display his bowling trophy. How could a writer best revise this sentence to avoid overly formal language? by inserting an adverb between the two pa...
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