Lizzie Borden Article III

What is the rhetorical effect of the metaphor in paragraph one: “There was the stage and the stage setting with all of the supporting company, but none of the principal characters arrived on the stage”?

• The metaphor reveals the disorganization of the police.

• The metaphor reveals that the police have solved the case.

• The metaphor dramatizes the anticipation and excitement of an arrest.

• The metaphor dramatizes the brutality of the crime.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How does the following metaphor from paragraph 11 characterize the press: “the wiser night-hawks on the lookout for news flew home to bed”?

• It implies the prowess of the press to know when the police will announce important news.

• It implies that the press relentlessly seek out news all day and night.

• It shows that the press have great respect for the police.

• It shows that the press is prepared for an arrest in the case.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does this statement reveal as the motivation behind the lack of an arrest in the case: “So general became the popular demand for an arrest and so unanimously did public sentiment point to one person as the perpetrator of the double murder that the family became alarmed and lost no time in exerting itself to such measures as would secure at least a stay in the proceedings until there was no reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the person suspected”?

• The Borden family put a stop to an arrest so that they could carry out their own investigation.

• The newspapers have accused Lizzie Borden of the murders, so the police decided to wait as long as possible to arresther out of respect for her family.

• The Borden family paid an attorney to put a stop to the arrest and could afford to do so because of their wealth andinfluence in the community.

• The newspapers have accused Lizzie Borden of the murders, so the family decided to fight for a delay in theproceedings until there was no doubt of her guilt.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is the purpose of including the section entitled “Mysterious Robbery”?

• To show that the home had been robbed before these murders.

• To show that someone was able to enter and exit the home undetected in the past.

• To show that the murderer might be the same person who robbed the Bordens before the murders.

• To show that the police may have missed a key to the crime.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which sentence provides the best summary of the text?

• The judge listens to the evidence, and the police prepare for an arrest by interviewing two key people in the case, Lizzie Borden and Miss Sullivan, while key players weigh in on the murders.

• The police have failed to make an arrest in the case because the judge is hearing the evidence.

• Lizzie Borden’s family stands behind her innocence, and Alderman Beattie gives his view on the case.

• Public opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt has changed, and the legal inquest into the case has begun.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2