In the following sentence, identify the underlined phrase:

The spectators watched the young acrobat wobbling across the tight rope.

Identify the infinitive’s function in the following sentence:

Cheryl gave me a comic to read.

Identify the infinitive’s function in the following sentence:

Brooke’s wish is to eat what whatever she wants.

Identify the infinitive’s function in the following sentence:

The girls are coming this weekend to go swimming.

The following sentence contains a participial phrase.  Identify the noun that each participial phrase modifies. 

Removing his coat, Bill Harvey slowly opened the door.

The following sentence contains a participial phrase.  Identify the noun that each participial phrase modifies. 

Despite my screams, the car continued over the hill crashing into the overturned truck.

The following sentence contains a participial phrase.  Identify the noun that each participial phrase modifies. 

The wild dogs running down the street attacked the old lady.

“Gregor's eyes turned next to the window, and the overcast sky - one could hear raindrops beating on the window gutter - made him quite melancholy.”

 – The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

What sensory imagery does the author use in this passage?

“He was not interested in the snow. When he got off the freight, one early evening during the depression, Sergeant never even noticed the snow. But he must have felt it seeping down his neck, cold, wet, sopping in his shoes.”

What imagery does Langston Hughes use in this excerpt from his short story, “On the Road”?

“The Palace Hotel at Fort Romper was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron, causing the bird to declare its position against any background. The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and howling in a way that made the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a gray swampish hush.”

What sensory imagery does this passage from Stephen Crane's short story, “The Blue Hotel” use?

Identify the literary device used in the following passage:

 “My mind makes marvelous moves, masses / Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered,” Blackalicious -- Alphabet Aerobics

Identify the literary device used in the following passage:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

- "A Red, Red, Rose" by Robert Burns

Identify the literary device used in the following passage:

 “Hope” is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul” - Emily Dickinson

Identify the literary device used in the following passage:

 “Oh, coffee, my sweet dark coffee. What would I do without you?”

“Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed.  Each day dawned hotter than the one before.”

What is the mood of the passage?

What is the tone of the following text?

“I will not,” she shouted.  “I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!”

“They plan to kill Gen. Washington.”  He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. “Tell me all.”

What is the tone of the dialogue?

If a reading text were a one-act play, it would have the main features except for ____. 

Which of the elements or features of a one-act play reveal its intent or purpose?

Characters in a play are portrayed by actors who speak the ___ and carry out the action of the play.