WorksheetsA Work in Progress Analysis
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
What is the main message of “A Work in Progress” ?
People must lower their expectations so that they will not be disappointed.
Newer prosthetic legs are a great improvement over wooden prosthetic legs.
Accepting and embracing one’s differences can lead to success in life.
People who are normal never get the opportunity to be extraordinary.
Why does the author most likely tell this story?
to explain the danger of prosthetic legs and why she was nervous about physical activity
to describe how humiliated she felt when people overreacted to her broken prosthetic leg
to show the funny difference between how she and others reacted to her broken prosthetic leg
to prove that her teacher was right when she said that the author’s inappropriate condition would distract others
Based on the following details “A child chooses surgery to walk better after seeing the author’s legs.,” what is most likely true about the author?
She inspires other people with her actions.
She refuses to admit that she has any faults.
She had to overcome a fear of public speaking.
She secretly still wishes she doesn’t need prosthetics.
Which excerpt from “A Work in Progress” is the clearest example of comic diction?
Most people learn to walk in very high heels. They bend their ankle so the ball of the foot touches the ground first; you have more stability.
The “skin color” was the rubber foam foot painted “Caucasian,” which is the nastiest shade of nuclear peach that you’ve ever seen in your life.
So at some point I get caught in a rip current, and I’m migrating from my vantage point of where I could see my parents’ towel. And I’m taking in water, and I’m fighting, fighting, fighting.
And then when I was fourteen it was Easter Sunday, and I was gonna be wearing a dress that I had purchased with my own money—the first thing I ever bought that wasn’t on sale.
Which of the following is a literary technique used in “A Work in Progress” to create humor?
referring to the audience directly throughout the article
describing something that is out of place for a situation
choosing commonly used words that people understand
using formal language that produces an unexpected effect
Which excerpt from “A Work in Progress” is the clearest example of hyperbole?
But instead I had these wooden legs with a rubber foot that the toes broke off of, and they were held on with a big bolt that rusted out ….
And when I say “white,” I’m not talking about skin color; I’m talking about the color white.
And these legs were so good at being waterproof that they were buoyant. So when I’d go off the high dive, I’d go down and come straight back up feet first. They were the bane of my existence.
And like all Internet-savvy kindergarteners, she gets on the computer and Googles “new leg,” and she comes up with dozens of images of prosthetics, many of them mine.
