Vocabulary
This adjective means "relating to beauty or the appreciation of beauty."
What is Aesthetic?
This is when the author gives hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
He wrote Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The Gulf Stream, an ocean current that courses along the eastern coast of the United States, exerts a pivotal influence on climate dynamics. Recent findings establish with a high degree of confidence that the __________ has dropped around 4% over the last 40 years. With this finding, the ocean’s circulation patterns must have been altered as well, which also has implications for extreme weather events, like droughts, floods, and heat waves.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A) speed of the Streams’ flows
B) speed of the Stream’s flows
C) speed of the Streams flow’s
D) speed of the Stream’s flows’
What is Choice (B)?
Explanation: "Stream" must be singular because of the reference to the singular proper noun "the Gulf Stream", and “Stream” is appropriately made possessive to indicate that the "flows" belong to the Gulf Stream. Nothing belongs to the flows, so no apostrophe is needed.
What long-running animated sitcom features characters like Bart, Lisa, and Homer in the fictional town of Springfield?
What is the Simpsons?
This noun means "A strong feeling of dislike or opposition."
What is Affluence?
This point of view uses "I" and "we" to tell the story from the narrator’s perspective.
What is first-person point of view?
In this dystopian novel, firemen burn books.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
Who invented the light bulb? Many people would say Thomas Edison. _________ light bulbs have existed since before Edison; he was just the first one to develop a carbon filament light bulb. Other iterations of light bulbs were developed by several inventors: Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, James Bowman Lindsay, Warren de la Rue, William Staite, and Joseph Swan.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A) However,
B) Next,
C) Meanwhile,
D) Thus,
What is Choice (A)?
Explanation: “However” logically signals that the previous sentence is in contrast to the information in this sentence. The previous sentence makes a statement about Edison inventing the light bulb. The next sentence contradicts this fact. Therefore, there is a contrast between the two sentences.
What’s the name of the Kardashian sister who launched the clothing brand “Good American”?
Who is Khloe Kardashian?
This nouns means "skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands."
What is Dexterity?
A struggle between a character and an outside force is this type of conflict.
What is external conflict?
She wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about justice in the American South.
Who is Harper Lee?
To dye wool, Navajo weaver Lillie Taylor uses plants and vegetables from Arizona, where she lives. For example, she achieved the deep reds and browns featured in her 2003 rug In the Path of the Four Seasons by using Arizona dock roots, drying and grinding them before mixing the powder with water to create a dye bath. To intensify the appearance of certain colors, Taylor also sometimes mixes in clay obtained from nearby soil.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A) Reds and browns are not commonly featured in most of Taylor’s rugs.
B) In the Path of the Four Seasons is widely acclaimed for its many colors and innovative weaving techniques.
C) Taylor draws on local resources in the approach she uses to dye wool.
D) Taylor finds it difficult to locate Arizona dock root in the desert.
What is C) Taylor draws on local resources in the approach she uses to dye wool?
Explanation: The passage focuses on the idea that the artist Lillie Taylor uses resources such as plants and vegetables from where she lives in Arizona to make dyes for wool.
Which video game streaming platform is most commonly used by gamers like Ninja and Pokimane?
What is Twitch?
This verb means "To caution, advise, or counsel against something"
What is Admonish?
This device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Additionally, you must provide an example!
What is a simile?
This American author wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Many animals, including humans, must sleep, and sleep is known to have a role in everything from healing injuries to encoding information in long-term memory. But some scientists claim that, from an evolutionary standpoint, deep sleep for hours at a time leaves an animal so vulnerable that the known benefits of sleeping seem insufficient to explain why it became so widespread in the animal kingdom. These scientists therefore imply that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) it is more important to understand how widespread prolonged deep sleep is than to understand its function.
B) prolonged deep sleep is likely advantageous in ways that have yet to be discovered.
C) many traits that provide significant benefits for an animal also likely pose risks to that animal.
D) most traits perform functions that are hard to understand from an evolutionary standpoint.
What is B) prolonged deep sleep is likely advantageous in ways that have yet to be discovered?
Explanation:
The passage indicates that although scientists recognize that sleep, which is widespread among animal species, has benefits, some scientists believe that deep, prolonged sleep is so risky from the perspective of animal species’ survival and well-being that there must be some so-far-undiscovered advantage(s) to sleep to make it worthwhile from an evolutionary standpoint.
Which animated Disney show follows Luz, a teen who ends up in the magical Boiling Isles and trains as a witch?
What is the Owl House?
Write a complete sentence for each of the following words: Ascend, Indispensable, and Nebulous
Note: Must be more than 5 words in each sentence.
Definitions:
Ascend: To move, climb, or go upward. (Verb)
Indispensable: Absolutely necessary or essential. (Adjective)
Nebulous: Hazy, vague, or unclear. (Adjective)
This is the central idea or underlying message in a literary work
Additionally, you must give us the title of a book you have read (school or personal) AND it's "central idea."
What is the theme?
In this novel, a creature made from dead body parts asks his creator for a companion.
What is Frankenstein?
The following text is from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. [Jay Gatsby] was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.
As used in the text, what does the word “quality” most nearly mean?
A) Characteristic
B) Standard
C) Prestige
D) Accomplishment
What is A?
Explanation: As used in the last sentence of the passage, “quality” refers to a trait or attribute (“characteristic”)—specifically, Jay Gatsby’s “resourcefulness of movement,” which manifested as restlessness.
What anime, adapted into a live-action series by Netflix in 2023, features a crew of pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy?
What is One Piece?