Encanto STAAR Practice Quiz

Neglected

Untrusting

Driven

Overwhelmed

Selfish

Confident

Pessimistic

Hopeful

To show the irony between her physical and emotional capabilities

To emphasize the contrast between what she just said and how she feels

To reveal how she really feels as a result of the conflicts between her and her sisters

To portray the difference in what she wants for her life and what it currently is

To compare herself to someone who also was under pressure and question whether they felt the same as she did

To show the danger of the tasks she is constantly asked to perform

To contrast the reasons behind their selfless acts to help their people

To justify why she feels conflicted about her role in her community just like

others before her have felt

Create a image that portrays what the speaker is currently experiencing

Create a sense of tension that mimics the speaker's feelings

Portray the internal conflict she is facing with herself to be better

Emphasize the counting down of time to the moment she can finally be

herself

Compare her situation to driving a ship blindly without knowing if they can

make it through the challenges in the way

Emphasize how tough she is to the toughness of a ship taking on icebergs

and other challenges at sea

Emphasize how she feels like she can't back down no matter how big the task presented to her is

Differentiate between the pressure put on her and the pressure put on a

metaphorical ship

To show that it just takes one thing to lose her mind

To illustrate the feeling of losing control if something goes wrong

To desire to shake off the extra stress

To clarify what was said in the previous stanza

Being seen as weak

Hurting the people around her because of her strength

Being a burden to others

Letting everyone down

“I take what I’m handed/ I break what’s demanded”

“I hide my nerves, and it worsens, I worry something is going to hurt us

"I feel berserk as a tightrope walker in a three-ring circus”

"If I could shake the crushing weight of expectations"

Both feel stifled by their expected roles

Both feel hurt that the people around them haven't noticed what they really

feel

Both feel burdened to be a leader in a community that doesn’t accept them

Both feel confused to what they should be doing with their gifts