Activity Quiz 1.2-1.4

What is the best way to analyze an image to make an inference?

• Decide on the meaning of the image first and then find details that support that meaning.

• Compare the image to other images on the same subject to determine its meaning.

• Closely observe the details in the image, then consider what message those details convey.

• Research the artist's life and cultural context to determine the message of the work.

Read the excerpt from "Bread" by Margaret Atwood.

"This bread happens to be brown, but there is also white bread, in the refrigerator, and a heel of rye you got last week, round as a full stomach then, now going moldy. Occasionally you make bread. You think of it as something relaxing to do with your hands."

 

Based on the excerpt, which sentence is the best expansion of the kernel "It goes to waste"?

• In the kitchen, a variety of breads goes to waste because of mold.

• The rye bread goes to waste because it is left uneaten until it molds. 

• A variety of breads left uneaten goes to waste in the refrigerator.

• In the refrigerator, the rye bread goes to waste because it is left to mold. 

Read the excerpt from the essay "Bread."

"What stopped you? You don’t want to know whether the bread is real or whether it’s just a hallucination I’ve somehow duped you into seeing. There’s no doubt that you can see the bread, you can even smell it, it smells like yeast, and it looks solid enough, solid as your own arm. But can you trust it? Can you eat it? You don’t want to know, imagine that."

How does the author's use of questions contribute to the meaning of the paragraph?

• The questions help set up the neutral, informative answers that the author then gives about the importance of the bread

• The questions engage the reader and challenge the reader's assumptions about the importance and availability of bread.

• The questions are a stylistic choice that do not contribute to the meaning of the essay but serve to entertain the reader instead.

• The questions help the reader draw conclusions about the important role bread plays in their own lives.

Read the excerpt from "The First Day."

"I am wearing a checkeredlike blue-and-green cotton dress, and scattered about these colors are bits of yellow and white and brown. My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles."

How do the narrator’s words help develop the character of her mother?

• They show that the mother cares about what her daughter wears

• They show that the mother thinks about appearances too much.

• They show that the mother is nervous about where they are about to go.

• They show that the mother is not used to braiding her daughter’s hair.

Read the excerpt from the beginning of the short story "The First Day" by Edward P. Jones.

"On an otherwise unremarkable September morning, long before I learned to be ashamed of my mother, she takes my hand and we set off down New Jersey Avenue to begin my very first day of school".

What effect does the author create by including the phrase "before I learned to be ashamed of my mother"?  

 

• The author creates suspicion as a clue to the reader that the narrator's view of her mother is unreliable.

• The author creates tension by foreshadowing an important event that will change the way the narrator views her mother.

• The author creates a sense of mystery by showing that the narrator has always had both positive and negative feelings toward her mother.

• The author creates a sense of surprise by alluding to the narrator's future feelings for her mother.

What does S.T.E.A.L mean?

• S- says

  T- thinks

  E- effect on others

  A- actions

  L- looks

• S-says

  T- thoughts

  E- effect on others

  A-actions

  L- lakes

• S- shows

  T- tells

  E- effect on others

  A- actions

  L- likes

• S- says

  T- thanks

  E- effect on others

  A- apples

  L- looks

Through direct characterization, the writer SHOWS you the personality of the character.

TRUE or FALSE

• TRUE

• FALSE

Direct characterization TELLS you the personality of a character.

TRUE or FALSE?

• TRUE

• FASLE

Through indirect characterization, the writer SHOWS you the personality of a character

• True

• False

In the short story, "The First Day" by Edward P. Jones, the author uses ________ to help develop the character of the mother.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization