ELA 9/23 Practice

Read this quotation from paragraph 17 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.

I thought, this is a kind of love; and, as in love, my senses amplified and enhanced the love object, all with an insouciance and willing enthusiasm.

Why does the narrator use a metaphor to describe his response to playing the piano?

• To explain how he is able to remember a piece of music

• To show how sharing music increases enjoyment

• To suggest that owning a piano can spark enthusiasm

• To reveal the depth of his feelings towards the piano

Read this quotation from paragraph 16 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.

“Think of it as an investment in personal expression.”

What can the reader infer about the narrator’s wife based on her words?

• The wife believes it is more important to invest in the arts than in other things.

• The wife does not believe people should deny themselves things that they want

• The wife views the piano as an attractive addition to their living room.

• The wife sees music as a necessary outlet for her husband’s creativity.

Katy wants to create a more effective thesis statement for her paper.
Which of the following could replace sentence 4 and more accurately convey the thesis of this paper?

• Fearing life in the city, they chose a more rural existence in a big yellow school bus.
• This couple didn’t have to, but they decided that a bus is what they wanted to have.
• This young couple lives in a uniquely converted school bus that they have affectionately named Rosie.
• Instead of a normal dwelling, they have chosen a vehicle—something quite rare, strange, and out of the norm.

The author's attitude conveyed by a piece of literature is...

• theme

• tone

• author's purpose

• main idea

Read:

Francis Scott Key, a lawyer negotiating an important prisoner exchange during the War of 1812, was the accidental poet of our national anthem when he hastily jotted down “Defense of Fort McHenry,” after watching twenty five hours of bombardment. The flag flying over Fort McHenry had survived the night from the “twilight’s last gleaming” to the “dawn’s early light.” The resilience and endurance of that flag was Key’s inspiration. Today, the national anthem is played at every sports event, including the Olympics, and asks the same question every time it is sung: Does the flag still waver over “the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

The author’s purpose in writing the paragraph is to -

• Argue against singing the national anthem so often

• Explain the origins of the lyrics for the national anthem

Read:

Ray Brown works after school and on weekends delivering pizza, and he may one day be out of a job. A major car company and a pizza business are teaming up to deliver pizzas in driverless cars. Customers will have to come out of their homes, type in a code, and reach into the heated backseat compartment to extract the exact pizza from the stack of up to five orders. Currently, the driverless delivery service is being tested with a development engineer as driver behind blacked-out windows to determine customer interaction and to make sure the expensive radar and cameras are secured. If the test proves successful, driverless deliver of not only pizza but other products to homes and job sites may be a reality by 2021.

What is the primary purpose of the paragraph?

• To suggest that the pizza business will soon not need drivers

• To explain why driverless cars may be a rewarding technology advancement

• To summarize the problems of delivering pizza in driverless cars

What figurative language that you find in the poem?

• methaphore

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

What is the story about?

• the strugle of life

• the story of the writer's life

• holding our dreams

• take a barren life

The word "they" in "The waves beside them danced, but they" refers to ...

• the waves

• their heads

• the golden daffodils

• the star

My Best Friend

You love me for me.

How is it possible that-

My very being, you understand, you see.

In my mind, you shall remain-

If something should ever happen to you,

My sunshine would turn to rain.

You will always be in my heart,

For that is where you belong,

That is where you were from the very start.

Thank you for being you.

Thank you for understanding.

Thank you for always being true.

I love you.

The first line says, “You love me for me.”

What does the word ‘you’ refer to?

• The writer's mother.

• The writer's father.

• The writer’s friend.

• The writer's cousin.

• Someone special.