Lyddie Ch. 10

Which is the opposite of breathing air that is “laden with moisture and debris”?

• It would feel like you are suffocating.

• It would feel like you are choking and need water.

• It would feel like breathing fresh air.

• It would feel like your lungs are collapsing.

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The text says: “Now that she thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris” (75). How do you know what the word "laden" means?

• The quote says that Lyddie couldn't really breathe because the air was filled with humidity and dust.

• The quote says that Lyddie couldn't really breathe because it was hot and the space was tight.

• The quote said that Lyddie wasn't having difficulty breathing because she is use to the farm air.

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The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). What does the phrase "bowels of the machine" mean?

• The internal organs of people

• The inside of the humid and dusty weaving room

• The outside of the machine

• The insides of the looms

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What does personification mean?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• Giving a non-living object traits of a human or animal.

• An extreme exaggeration.

• A phrase that has different meanings than what it says.

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The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). What is being personified?

• The weaving room.

• Lyddie's hands.

• The factory.

• The loom.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Personification gives stories life and helps audiences connect and understand the text better.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.5.5

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By giving inanimate objects human qualities, personification helps to relate ideas and objects to people, allowing an author to convey their meaning more effectively.

• True

• False

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An example of personification is:

• She is a rose.

• The sunlight danced.

• It was a billion miles away.

• The sun is the sunniest sun in all of suns.

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“Her quiet meals in the corner of the kitchen with Triphena, even her meager bowls of bark soup with the seldom talkative Charlie, seemed like feasts compared to the huge, rushed, noisy affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s house” (76). What does the word meager mean? (Choose two)

• Lacking in quantity or quality

• A lot of something

• Inadequate

• A little of something

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Why is Diana Goss known as a radical amongst the other girls in the factory?

• Diana is known as a radical because she fights for worker's rights

• Diana is known as a radical because she reads nonstop

• Diana is not known as a radical

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