Literary Text
How does the speaker view himself?
And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better[...]I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all.
As a two-faced sinner
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Infants
Based on information in the dictionary entry below, which word is being defined?
n. An outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development. [fr. Gk epidemos, fr. epi- on, upon + demos people]
Epidemic
Episode
Estimate
Epidemic
What is the purpose of the dash in the sentence below?
There is a simple answer to that question—Baloney! People who believe such drivel don't know what they're talking about!
It creates a dramatic pause.
What is the purpose of the comparison in the sentence below?
The flu lurking in the midst of this patriotic fervor, however, would prove far more lethal than trench warfare and poison gas.
It emphasizes the severity of the flu epidemic.
What is the tone of this paragraph?
When the Romans conquered ancient Britain, they brought their standards of measurement along and imposed them on the people. Consequently, some of these standards have survived to the 20th century. The British Imperial System of weights and measures evolved from many sources and became fairly well standardized by the 19th century. The standard yard and pound were kept in the Houses of Parliament. However, when the Parliament building burned in 1834, the standards were destroyed. British scientists then began to press for a more uniform standard for the gallon, the pound, and the yard which could be used in the entire British Empire. This made trading, buying, and selling much more uniform.
Informative
Deployment
Adding the suffix -ment to the word deploy changes a ___ to a ___.
verb to a noun
Sending handwritten thank-you notes—a quaint practice according to some people—is fast becoming a thing of the past.
Identify the parenthetical statement
a quaint practice according to some people
What is the tone of the paragraph?
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
Nervous
Summarize the passage's main idea.
Nearsighted people experience blurred vision while looking at distant objects, such as street signs viewed from inside a car. Conversely, farsighted people experience blurred vision while looking at nearby objects, such as words on a page. The causes of these two conditions differ as well. Nearsightedness, or myopia, occurs either when a person's eye is too long from back to front or when the cornea (the clear layer at the front of the eye) is too curved. On the other hand, farsightedness, or hyperopia, results when the eye is too short or when the cornea is not curved enough. Fortunately, corrective lenses can restore normal vision in both cases. As you might expect, these lenses are of opposing types: nearsightedness is improved with a lens that is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges, while farsightedness is compensated for with a lens that is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.
Nearsightedness and farsightedness produce contrasting vision problems, have opposite causes, and require different types of lenses.
This phrase is a collocation of a __ and a ___.
closed indefinitely
verb and adverb
Punctuate the sentence with a dash to emphasize the personal bias implied in the words "worse yet."
Society is becoming less refined or, worse yet, less civilized.
Society is becoming less refined or—worse yet—less civilized.
In 1976, the highly successful women's crew team at Yale University—an all-men's school until 1969—faced a distressing situation: the boathouse still had no women's showers. After every practice session, the men enjoyed hot showers while the women went home cold and wet after a morning of vigorous rowing. The women approached school officials about this untenable situation, but nothing changed. Finally, they opted for dramatic action to focus attention on the different treatment of Yale's male and female rowing crews. They arranged a meeting with a school administrator and invited a writer and photographer from the school paper to attend. At the meeting, the team captain read an eloquent, pointed statement explaining the conditions the team had to endure without access to showers. Meanwhile, the women displayed the words "Title IX" written on their bodies, referring to a federal law banning gender discrimination in educational activities. When an article about the meeting appeared in the New York Times, the team not only got their showers but also succeeded in raising public awareness about Title IX.
In order to secure fair access to the showers, the Yale women's crew team called attention to Title IX in an unusual way.
OR
The lack of boathouse shower facilities for the Yale women's crew team was the first violation of Title IX regulations.
In order to secure fair access to the showers, the Yale women's crew team called attention to Title IX in an unusual way.
What relationship can be found in following sentence?
This action was taken by the Board of Health after the receipt of reports showing the alarming spread of influenza.
Cause and effect
This phrase is a collocation of ___ and ___:
raised concerns
verb and noun
What is the effect of the dash?
There are individuals who believe that the disappearance of the handwritten note is symptomatic of something more ominous—the end of refinement and gentility in contemporary society.
Dramatic effect
In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn decides not to turn in the runaway slave, Jim. Upon making this merciful decision not to betray his friend, Huck says, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."
What is this statement an example of?
verbal irony.
situational irony.
a regional dialect.
Verbal irony
How is this passage organized?
Nearsighted people experience blurred vision while looking at distant objects, such as street signs viewed from inside a car. Conversely, farsighted people experience blurred vision while looking at nearby objects, such as words on a page. The causes of these two conditions differ as well. Nearsightedness, or myopia, occurs either when a person's eye is too long from back to front or when the cornea (the clear layer at the front of the eye) is too curved. On the other hand, farsightedness, or hyperopia, results when the eye is too short or when the cornea is not curved enough. Fortunately, corrective lenses can restore normal vision in both cases. As you might expect, these lenses are of opposing types: nearsightedness is improved with a lens that is thinner in the middle and thicker at the edges, while farsightedness is compensated for with a lens that is thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.
Compare and contrast
Give an example of a phrase is a collocation made up of an adjective and a noun.
Conservative estimates
Use a dash to effectively merge the sentences.
Many people concede that individuals who regret the disappearance of the handwritten note have a point, but they argue that in making that point such individuals over-romanticize the past. They add, incidentally, that such individuals imagine a civility that probably never existed
Many people concede that individuals who regret the disappearance of the handwritten note have a point, but they argue that in making that point such individuals over-romanticize the past—and, incidentally, imagine a civility that probably never existed.