Red Badge of Courage Chaps. 1-2

Which rhetorical device is demonstrated in the blue portion below?
"He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from a trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters. 

• imagery
• metaphor
• parallelism
• antithesis

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What effect did Henry's decision to go to war have on his mother? 

• She gleamed with pride.
• She had mixed feelings - on the one hand she wanted him out of the house to grow up, but on the other hand, she still looked at him like her sweet little boy.
• She cried and gave him her words of advice.
• She struck him over and over with her rolling pin. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What major question was Henry worried about regarding himself? 

• He wondered whether he had it in himself to kill another man.
• He wondered if he might run away during battle.
• He wondered what the other men might do to him at night.
• He wondered how good of soldier he might be. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is another way Henry is being referenced throughout the novel thus far? 

• the tattered soldier
• the youth
• the tall soldier
• the loud soldier

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The "orbs of a row of dragons advancing", and these "huge crawling reptiles", and the "long serpents" were all... 

• references to the animals men encountered on their way to approach the enemy
• metaphors for the marching enemy men in the distance
• similes that compared the bugs that crawled around in their beds at night to different animals 
• metaphors for the generals and colonels who failed to make decisions

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who is the loud soldier and what does Henry discuss with him at the end of chapter 2?

• Jim Conklin and the generals decisions
• Wilson and the generals decisions
• Jim Conklin and running from battle
• Wilson and running from battle

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is the loud soldier and what does Henry discuss with him at the end of chapter 2?

• Jim Conklin and the generals decisions
• Wilson and the generals decisions
• Jim Conklin and running from battle
• Wilson and running from battle

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Just before Henry finally goes into battle, what does he think?

• He wondered what it would be like to be the hero of the war.
• He suddenly felt as he was going to be sick.
• He never really wanted to be in the war; he was forced to join.
• He wondered how his mother was doing.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

As the army traveled, they could hear firing in the distance, and could see lines of skirmishes. In front of Henry, the men parted to avoid something on the ground. It was a/n ... 

• a confederate flag
• injured horse
• a dead man
• a discarded rifle

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is a continued complaint of the soldiers?

• seemingly endless marching
• inadequate food rations
• the noise of the battle
• a lack of sleep

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3