Cards in this guide (22)
To what does the word tintinnabulation pertain
Tintinnabulation deals with noise/the sound of bells. It has
nothing to do with the Belgian reporter in the comic strip.
Mimi had 174 to buy tickets to a concert The adult tickets cost 10.50 and the student tickets cost 7.50 She bought 4 more student tickets than adult tickets How many student tickets did she buy
The noise in the cafeteria sounded like ten trains pulling into a station
Which of these definitions describes the central conflict
a struggle between forces that form the plot of story
When the king asked Huck if he had seen anyone go into the room, what was Huck's response
The lemonade was colder than an iceberg in the Arctic
The waves of the lake faded into a faint haze
The trickle trickle trickle of the creek water was soothing
After the first paragraph what does the narrator decide to do
The word sagacious as used in the passage most likely means which of the following
For your part you abominate all honorable respectable toils trials and tribulations of every kind whatsoever
What interrupted the funeral service
Who told the king about the deceased man and his family
The rancher hired three new hands to help with the branding of the cattle
Yup, the rancher did indeed.
When all the students dropped their books at the same time a deafening silence commanded the room what literary technique is used in this sentence
This is a common literary technique called bad writing. If
everyone dropped their books at the same time, there would not be
silence. As for the technical term, "deafening silence" is an
oxymoron.
Which of these passages from the house of the seven gables contains a metaphor
… the brackish water itself, however nauseous to the rest of the world, was so greatly esteemed by these fowls, that they might be seen tasting, turning up their heads, and smacking their bills, with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask.
What terms best describes the old man in this reading passage
Based on the information in the chart which of these statements is true
Based on the information in the chart, which of these statements
is true?
What prediction can be made from the information in the reading passage in Uses for Buffalo
Indians are able to use the buffalo all year A+
What year was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis
Stevenson, was published in 1886.
Which of these passages from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains a simile
We had dinner out in that broad open passage...and there was things enough on that table for seven families--and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.
Which of these passages from Great Expectations contains a metaphor
That I had a fever and was avoided...that the time seemed interminable, that I confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a brick in the house wall, and yet entreating to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me;...