Multiple Choice Station 2

Which choice best describes how the new hairstyle affects the speaker?

• It prompts her to build new relationships with her peers.

• It makes her pay more attention to fashion trends.

• It encourages her to develop pride in her beauty and herself.

• It initiates her first feelings of adolescent rebellion.

Which choice best supports the answer to the previous question?

• "Everybody's wearing this style now” (line 5)

• “in something as once ordinary / as hair” (lines 8-9)

• "Now connected / to a long line of girls / moving through Brooklyn" (lines 14-16)

• "so much more than / you once believed yourself to be" (lines 19-20)

As used in lines 12 and 14, "connected" most nearly means

• secured.

• linked.

• combined.

• likened.

What is the effect of the speaker's direct address to the reader beginning in lines 17-18 ("You must / know this too")?

• It encourages the reader to recall the innocence of childhood.

• It challenges the reader to take ownership of past experiences.

• It engages the reader by invoking a shared emotional experience.

• It calls on the reader to sympathize with others by identifying a shared attitude.

In lines 22-25 (“too-skinny . . . hair”), the speaker repeats the word "too" mainly to

• highlight how focused she is on her new friends.

• show that she yearns to avoid the judgments of others.

• stress that she is still striving to change things about herself.

• emphasize the extent of her previous negative feelings.

The speaker's reference to a “trick mirror" in line 28 suggests the idea that

• it is impossible to recognize one's true self.

• a group is stronger than any one individual.

• societal standards shape perceptions of one's self.

• many perspectives are needed to shift a mindset.

The clue word for this box is the answer to the following question:

Question: Which rhetorical appeal targets emotions?