life does not frighten me at all

Which of the following inferences best explains why the speaker uses repetition in the final two stanzas of the poem?

• A. She has changed her mind about all of the things which previously had not frightened her.

• B. She is trying to guarantee that one of these phrases will be the title of the poem.

• C. She is attempting to convince herself that the repeated phrase is true

• D. She has finally come up with something which frightens her.

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The fifth stanza (lines 13–20) adds to the development of the poem mainly by .

I go boo

Make them shoo

I make fun

Way they run

I won't cry

So they fly

I just smile

They go wild

• moving away from the rhyming couplets that begin the first three stanzas

• . introducing how the speaker fights back against all of her potential fears

• C. offering the first instance of any first-person pronoun in the poem

• D. showing how things can frighten the narrator when they appear in her dreams

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Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

• A. The speaker of the poem is a young girl.

• B. All of the ideas that do not frighten the speaker are fantastical and from fairy tales.

• C. The speaker is upset at her teachers for not protecting her from the dangers of the world.

• D. The speaker is helpless against all of the things in the world which try to frighten her.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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Which lines from the text most strongly supports your answer to Question 3?

• A. “Tough guys fight / All alone at night”

• B. “I’ve got a magic charm / That I keep up my sleeve”

• C. “Not at all / Not at all.”

• D. “That new classroom where / Boys all pull my hair

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Which meaning of charm most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (lines x–x)?

I've got a magic charm

That I keep up my sleeve

I can walk the ocean floor

And never have to breathe.

• A. noun | the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration

• B. noun | an object or saying believed to have special power

• C. verb | delight greatly

• D. verb | control or achieve by or as if by magic

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