In Of Mice and Men, Slim states, “I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple” (45).

This is an example of:

In Of Mice and Men, the mice representing weakness, helplessness, and insignificance is an example of:

George and Lennie’s dream might symbolize all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is the most common topic(s) found in Of Mice and Men?

In Twelve Angry Men, the tension between Juror #8 and Juror #3 is an example of

In Of Mice and Men, Lennie is shot by George at the end. This would be considered the:

In Of Mice and Men, Curley’s glove full of Vaseline represents his insecurity. This is an example of:

Which of the following characters would be the only one to be considered a protagonist?

"Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been." - "Story of an Hour"

The word tumultuously most nearly means:

“She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.”

Which of the following words would NOT work as a synonym for elusive?

“A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.”

The word exalted most nearly means:

When Coates writes, “As long as this is the standard, then the expectation of justice of a boy like Tamir Rice is little more than a kind of magical thinking,” he is most likely using this type of persuasion:

“The question is not whether every officer would have reacted the same way,” Kimberly A. Crawford, the retired F.B.I. agent, wrote in her report, which noted that Officer Loehmann had no way of knowing Tamir’s gun was fake. “Rather, the relevant inquiry is whether a reasonable officer, confronting the exact same scenario under identical conditions could have concluded that deadly force was necessary...” (section 2)

The underlined section 2 of Coates’s article best illustrates the following persuasive technique:

At some point the discussion of police violence will have to move beyond the individual actions of officers to the level of policy. Convicting an officer of murder effectively requires an act of telepathy. As long as this is the standard, then the expectation of justice for a boy like Tamir Rice is little more than a kind of magical thinking. (section 3)

The underlined section 3 of Coates’s article best illustrates the following persuasive technique:

"Somehow we've weathered and witnessed"

This line of poetry from Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" shows what poetic device?

"That even as we hurt, we hoped

That even as we tired, we tried"

Which poetic device is evident in the above lines of poetry?