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[14]“Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favorite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning. Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its self-possessed note and became falteringly human. “Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back someday, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them and walk in at that window just as they used to do. That is why the window is kept open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing ‘Bertie, why do you bound?’ as he always did to tease her, because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window —”

How does Vera’s narration in paragraph 14 help build suspense?

• It creates suspense by portraying the three men as wandering spirits who continue to haunt the countryside.

• It creates suspense by hinting at the possibility of someone or something entering through the window later in the story

• It creates suspense by coming to an abrupt end before Vera is able to explain what supposedly happened to the three men out on the moor.

• It creates suspense by exhibiting minor inconsistencies, which suggest that Vera, for some unknown reason, is lying to Mr. Nuttel.

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An author writes a story in which the main character remembers a past experience, and the narrative is interrupted as this experience is recounted. This is an example of

• climax

• flashback

• resolution

• foreshadowing

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Jennifer has researched her selected topic and gathered supporting evidence. Now she plans to write an essay showing the connections between and impacts of a decision her hometown school district made five years ago. The district eliminated elementary physical education programs. Data shows a five-year increase in childhood obesity in her community.

Which is the BEST organizational structure for Jennifer to use?

• narrative essay

• cause and effect

• alphabetical order

• logical order

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Excerpt from The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

When the general, nursing his bruised shoulder, had gone, Rainsford took up his flight again. It was flight now, a desperate, hopeless flight, that carried him on for some hours. Dusk came, then darkness, and still he pressed on. The ground grew softer under his moccasins; the vegetation grew ranker, denser; insects bit him savagely. Then, as he stepped forward, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech. With a violent effort, he tore his foot loose. He knew where he was now. Death Swamp and its quicksand.

What technique does the author of this passage use to evoke emotions in the reader?

• climax

• flashback

• resolution

• foreshadowing

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Excerpt from Brown Eyes

George Furman

Brown Eyes, I've lost my heart to you.

I can't forget . . . I can't forget.

You may be faithless, but I'll be true.

I'll love you til the sun has set.

Oh, Brown Eyes, sweet as the soft twilight

That lingers from pole to pole.

And I will love you til the sun grows cold

And the stars have turned to gold.

Which BEST analyzes the poet's use of time?

• The imagery of the sun is used to create a sense of long-lasting love.

• The imagery of the sun setting is used to create the effect of a bittersweet end to love.

• The imagery of the soft twilight is used to express the promise of love even into old age.

• The imagery of the sun growing cold is used to express the reality that love cannot last forever.

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Excerpt from Wichita Mourning

David Matherne

Pipe organs—dusty and , tarnished—

Bellowed the ancient song,

As movers carried the pews

For one last time.

The BEST definition for tarnished is

• discarded

• full of odor

• easily cracked

• dull, lacking luster

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Excerpt from An Unlikely Heroine

Elizabeth Kibler

“You caught me,” laughed Alisa. “I just can’t stop playing—it’s my obsession.”

A synonym for the word obsession in paragraph 4 is

• fault

• reason

• passion

• problem

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Excerpt from Basketball Blues

Raquel Lindell

Jillian sat on her bedroom floor organizing notebooks, folders, and textbooks. She had designated a color to each class—yellow for Accelerated Geometry, green for Chemistry I, orange for American Government, and so on. Jillian always joked that she was only good at two things: organization and basketball. Jillian's mother even teased her daughter about the military precision with which she performed everyday tasks such as making her bed and ironing her clothes. "A place for everything and everything in its place," Jillian always said. In her bedroom, that meant books on the bookshelf, clothes in the closet, and blankets neatly tucked beneath the corners of her mattress. On the basketball court, that meant Jillian poised to make a free throw or a three-pointer at the buzzer.

What kind of person is Jillian in the passage?

• She is selfish.

• She is fearful.

• She is prepared.

• She is emotional.

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Excerpt from The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

Fredrick Douglass

To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

What is the effect of the word swelling in Douglass's phrase, swelling vanity?

• It has no effect whatsoever.

• It makes America's vanity seem bloated, pompous, and filled with an overweening pride.

• It makes for a very humorous image that adds to the comedy of Douglass's entire speech.

• It praises America for being rightfully proud of itself on this important day of celebration.

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Which BEST describes the author's technique in these sentences?

It had been a perfect day for Andrea. She gazed at her tall, strong, handsome boyfriend Gregory. They drove up the winding road and finally reached Gregory's palatial mansion. Andrea felt like she had been invited to Mount Olympus with Hercules. "This place really is fit for a Greek god," she thought to herself.

• Alliteration creates a soft sound and draws the reader into the story.

• The author uses humor to draw attention away from Andrea's ambition.

• Parallelism allows readers to see Andrea's pleasant interactions.

• The author uses allusion and description to create visual images.

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