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A travel writer claimed that she was irrevocably changed by seeing the abject poverty in India. |
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He explained to the officers that he was not involved in the melee, but saw how the fight began. |
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So much was riding on this test, that even though she studied for it, she still approached it with trepidation. |
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I didn’t think it was presumptuous of us to expect food at the wedding reception. |
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He shrouded his real feelings with hospitable gestures and friendly remarks. |
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Unlike many who suffer from congenital blindness, Ray Charles wasn’t born without sight, but lost it as a young boy. |
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Training a dog is mostly about when to chastise and when to praise. |
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Since your expenses are double your revenues, you need to stop or at least lessen this financial hemorrhaging if you plan to save the company. |
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I’m glad he supports the home team, but his loyalty borders on obstinacy when he argues with others about how good the team actually is. |
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While hiking through the mountains, I had an epiphany that I was the one causing my unhappiness |
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| Answer true or false: Because an independent clause is a complete thought, it can stand on its own as a complete sentence. |
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| __________ refers to when writers treat an abstract entity as if it were a person by endowing it with human-like qualities. |
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| The 6+1 Writing Trait of Presentation concerns: |
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| How the writing looks on the page ,Visual enhancements that are suitable for the purpose and audience |
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| The 6+1 Writing Trait of Ideas refers to: |
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| Which term below refers to an implied comparison of one thing with another unlike itself? |
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| Which sentence is NOT compound. |
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| Karen, Maya, and Duane played in the house and did not go out in the rain. |
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| Karen, Maya, and Duane played in the house and did not go out in the rain. |
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| Varying sentence styles is monotonous and sounds displeasing, especially when read aloud. |
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| Which of the following can help a reader determine voice and tone? |
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| The author's word choices and sentence structure |
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| Which of the terms below are examples of figurative language? |
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| simile ,personification ,metaphor |
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| Metaphors are similar to similes, but do not use words like or as to create comparisons. |
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| Good writing constantly uses simple sentence patterns. |
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| Literary references to something outside of the work itself (such as well-known people, historical events, or other works of literature) are called: |
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| The 6+1 Writing Trait of Word Choice refers to: |
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| Using the right word at the right time. ,Using words that are appropriate for the purpose and the audience. |
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Read the following paragraph. What compound sentence would probably be included in a rewrite of the paragraph?
Basketball is a popular game. Football is a popular game. Both games are played in many high schools. Basketball games have five players on the court at one time. Football games have more than double that amount on the field at one time. You probably would have a better chance to make the football team. |
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| Basketball is a popular game in high school, but more people can make the football team because more players can be on the field at one time. |
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Read the following paragraph. What compound sentence would probably be included in a rewrite of the paragraph?
It is expensive to go to college. Tuition costs are high. Most parents can't pay for college alone. They need help. Many students work while they are in school. They use the money to pay tuition costs. It is hard to work and study. They have to work harder each year because costs go up every year. |
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| College costs skyrocket each year and many college students work to help pay their tuition. |
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| Which of the following is not a complete sentence? |
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| When you enjoy something as much as he enjoys pizza. |
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Celebrities go out when photographers are waching. Celebrities like attention. They fabricate stories. Photographers and reporters listen to the made up stories. They will publish the stories to get people to watch the television or listen to the radio. A made up story is better than no story. |
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| Celebrities like attention and they make up problems to get on television or the radio. |
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| In the novel The Kite Runner, where is Amir's mother? |
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| She died giving birth to Amir. |
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| Please identify the conjunction in the following sentence: Sara hopes to attend Harvard, but her father is terrified by the tuition. |
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| In the short story "Two Kinds," what inspired the mother to want piano lessons for the daughter? |
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| In the short story "Two Kinds," how does the mother pay for the daughter's piano lessons? |
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| By trading housekeeping services |
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| Which of the terms below refers to the use of figurative language to evoke feelings, call ideas to mind, describe objects, or appeal to the senses? |
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| At the beginning of The Kite Runner, Amir receives a phone call from Rahim Khan who says |
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| "There is a way to be good again." |
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| In the novel The Kite Runner, what does Hassan get for his 12th birthday from Baba? |
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| surgery to fix his cleft lip |
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In the following sentence, what type of clause is "how much money he makes"?
How much money he makes is none of your business. |
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In the movie, the man's _______________ could be seen when he gave countless gifts to the poor people in the neighborhood. |
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| Answer true or false: In Heinlein's quote ("The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive"), the word "alive" likely refers to the state of being not dead. |
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“And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea…." |
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| Winning a plane ticket to Hawaii when you already live in Hawaii is not an example of situational irony. |
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| Answer true or false: In general, irony is when there is a similarity between appearances and reality. |
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| All of the following statements from "The Story of an Hour" are true except: |
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| Mrs. Mallard loved her husband very much. |
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| All of the following statements about predictions are true except |
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| Predictions must be made only in the beginning of a text. |
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| Which of the following sentences begins with an adverb clause? |
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| Even though her husband had died in a train disaster, Mrs. Mallard felt joy. |
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| In "Annabel Lee," why does the speaker believe that his love died? |
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| The angels were jealous of the couple's love. |
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| In "The Story of an Hour," who enters the house at the end of the story? |
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| Brently (Mr. Mallard himself) |
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| Which sentence is NOT complex? |
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| Cats and dogs can play together peacefully. |
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| In his commencement address to the graduating class at Stanford University, Steve Jobs |
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| tells the graduates that he never graduated from college |
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“Nothing was more typical of Ronald Reagan than that large-hearted magnanimity - and nothing was more American.” |
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| Answer true or false: Dying of dehydration while at sea is an example of situational irony. |
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“Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” |
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“In the terrible hours after the attempt on his life, his easy jokes gave reassurance to an anxious world. They were evidence that in the aftermath of terror and in the midst of hysteria, one great heart at least remained sane and jocular. They were truly grace under pressure.” |
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| Which of the following is a complex sentence? |
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| If you read carefully, you should be able to find the theme. |
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| Mrs. Mallard, who has heart trouble, locked herself in a room. |
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| All of the following statements about eulogies are true except: |
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| Memorize the eulogy so you don't need to have it written and in front of you. |
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| In "Full of Life Now" by Walt Whitman, the speaker wants |
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| to be friends with the reader |
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| Based on the meaning of the root chrom-, what is the definition of the word chromatic? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root altus-, what is the definition of the word altitude? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root tort-, what is the definition of the word torsion? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root path-, what is the definition of antipathy? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root sequ-, what is the meaning of consequence? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root omni-, what is the definition of omniscient? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root volvo-, what is the definition of voluble? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root fid-, what is the definition of the word confidant? |
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| Based on the meaning of the root tract-, what is the definition of tractable? |
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Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word:
A travel writer claimed that she was irrevocably changed by seeing the abject poverty in India. |
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| He explained to the officers that he was not involved in the melee, but saw how the fight began. |
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| So much was riding on this test, that even though she studied for it, she still approached it with trepidation. |
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I didn’t think it was presumptuous of us to expect food at the wedding reception. |
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Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word:
He shrouded his real feelings with hospitable gestures and friendly remarks. |
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Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word:
Unlike many who suffer from congenital blindness, Ray Charles wasn’t born without sight, but lost it as a young boy. |
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Training a dog is mostly about when to chastise and when to praise. |
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Since your expenses are double your revenues, you need to stop or at least lessen this financial hemorrhaging if you plan to save the company. |
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Since your expenses are double your revenues, you need to stop or at least lessen this financial hemorrhaging if you plan to save the company. |
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I’m glad he supports the home team, but his loyalty borders on obstinacy when he argues with others about how good the team actually is. |
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While hiking through the mountains, I had an epiphany that I was the one causing my unhappiness |
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the reader knows that Pearl is the child of both Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. The other characters don't know that Reverend Dimmesdale is the father.
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| Verbal irony has nothing to do with sarcasm. |
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| In general, irony is a difference between appearances and reality. |
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| Irony may be present in quotes and texts, but it cannot be present in pictures. |
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| Which sentence represents verbal irony? |
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| With tears in her eyes, Monique exclaimed, I'm not upset!" |
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Two friends are walking down a road after a rainstorm. One friend trips and falls in a mud puddle. The other friend smirks and says, "Wow, you're pretty lucky!"
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| Which of the following statements about irony is false? |
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| Dramatic irony is also called sarcasm. |
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| Pretend you believe that a friend's outfit is funny-looking, but when asked about the outfit, you say, "It looks great." You also roll your eyes. This is an example of verbal irony. |
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| A fire station burning down would be an example of verbal irony. |
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| Dramatic irony often creates suspense in the audience. |
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Use context clues to find the meaning of the underlined word:
“If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.” |
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“How do you get people to help you? You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth.” |
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Which word completes the following sentence?
College students must cope with _______________ to be successful in classes. |
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The husband answered for his wife who had signs of repression all over her face. |
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“And the other thing is I am in phenomenally good health right now. I mean it’s the greatest thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is the fact that I am in really good shape. In fact, I am in better shape than most of you. So anybody who wants to cry or pity me can [get] down and do a few of those, and then you may pity me.” |
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She begged Louise to open the door, but Louise would not listen to her sister’s importunities. |
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| Ariela complained about her husband, Ransie, for five minutes. Ransie’s antiphony to the judge followed. |
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Which word completes the following sentence?
A/an _______________ of voices filled the courtroom as the two lawyers shouted back and forth at each other. |
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morose : gloomy : : |
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jocular : personality : : |
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treaty : peace : : ____________________ |
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sepulchre : nursery : : |
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repression : freedom : : |
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seraphs : heaven : : ____________________ |
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spoil : damage : : ____________________ |
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drought : flood : : ____________________ |
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day : week : : ____________________ |
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the reader knows that Pearl is the child of both Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. The other characters don't know that Reverend Dimmesdale is the father.
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| A complex sentence is a sentence that contains two independent clauses and no more than one subordinate clause. |
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In the movie, the man's _______________ could be seen when he gave countless gifts to the poor people in the neighborhood. |
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| Identify the type of clause is used in the following sentence: That you would consider giving your inheritance to charity restores my faith in humanity. |
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| When he saw his favorite baseball player had signed with the Yankees, John threw a tantrum. |
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| In "The Story of an Hour," who enters the house at the end of the story? |
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| Brently (Mr. Mallard himself) |
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| A subordinate clause contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. |
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| In the short story "Two Kinds," the sheet music at the end can symbolize what? |
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| The two different people the daughter has been |
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College students must cope with _______________ to be successful in classes. |
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| In the novel The Kite Runner, Amir accuses Hassan of stealing his watch and birthday money. What is the result of this? |
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| Hassan admits stealing it to protect Amir. |
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| Literary references to something outside of the work itself (such as well-known people, historical events, or other works of literature) are called: |
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| Which word completes the following sentence? A/an _______________ of voices filled the courtroom as the two lawyers shouted back and forth at each other. |
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| A direct comparison of two unlike objects or ideas, often using the words like or as, is called a(n): |
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| All of the following statements about eulogies are true except: |
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| When delivering a eulogy, the speaker should use very formal English. |
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| Which of the terms below refers to the use of figurative language to evoke feelings, call ideas to mind, describe objects, or appeal to the senses? |
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Read the following paragraph. What compound sentence would probably be included in a rewrite of the paragraph?
Basketball is a popular game. Football is a popular game. Both games are played in many high schools. Basketball games have five players on the court at one time. Football games have more than double that amount on the field at one time. You probably would have a better chance to make the football team. |
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| Basketball is a popular game in high school, but more people can make the football team because more players can be on the field at one time. |
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The husband answered for his wife who had signs of repression all over her face. |
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house : shelter : : ____________________ |
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| commencement address : inspire |
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| Based on the meaning of the root altus-, what is the definition of the word altitude? |
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| A complex sentence is a sentence that contains two independent clauses and no nore than one subordinate clause. |
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| In "The Whirligig of Life," all of the following statements are true except: |
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| The Bilbros leave the town divorced. |
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| In the novel The Kite Runner, how does Amir justify leaving Hassan? |
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| Hassan was the lamb Amir had to slay in order to win over Baba. |
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Read the following paragraph. What compound sentence would probably be included in a rewrite of the paragraph?
It is expensive to go to college. Tuition costs are high. Most parents can't pay for college alone. They need help. Many students work while they are in school. They use the money to pay tuition costs. It is hard to work and study. They have to work harder each year because costs go up every year. |
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| College costs skyrocket each year and many college students work to help pay their tuition. |
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Joe really didn't like going to Spanish class. Studying Spanish vocabulary took away time from what he really enjoyed doing, which was reading novels. However, Joe regularly attended the weekly Spanish language lab sessions, and he always was sure to study the vocabulary words for the test. He even took time to get some tutoring.
Which of the following is most likely to occur based on the paragraph above? |
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| Joe will be successful in Spanish class. |
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| Which of the following statements about irony is false? |
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| Dramatic irony is also called sarcasm. |
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| In the story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, what does Tan explore? |
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| conflict between mother and daughter |
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Read the following:
Two friends are walking down a road after a rainstorm. One friend trips and falls in a mud puddle. The other friend smirks and says, "Wow, you're pretty lucky!"
What is the text above an example of? |
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| The attitude a literary work take towards its subject and theme is called: |
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Which word completes the following sentence?
The principal felt _______________ . He believed that the student had done something wrong, yet he did not feel that the punishment fit the crime. |
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Read the following paragraph. What compound sentence would probably be included in a rewrite of the paragraph?
Celebrities go out when photographers are waching. Celebrities like attention. They fabricate stories. Photographers and reporters listen to the made up stories. They will publish the stories to get people to watch the television or listen to the radio. A made up story is better than no story. |
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| Celebrities like attention and they make up problems to get on television or the radio |
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| Complete the analogy: game : rules :: books : __________________ |
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A/an _______________ of voices filled the courtroom as the two lawyers shouted back and forth at each other. |
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| __________ refers to when writers treat an abstract entity as if it were a person by endowing it with human-like qualities. |
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| Use what you know about the root tort- to define contortion. |
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| In the novel The Kite Runner, what does Amir do when he finds Hassan cornered by Assef and two other boys? |
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| He crouches behind a wall. |
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| In "The Whirligig of Life," the Justice of the Peace |
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| grants Ariela five dollars of alimony |
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| What were Haikuin's beliefs based upon? |
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| Under Zen Buddhism what is the most effective way to achieve insight? |
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| a story, dialogue or question used by Zen Buddhists to teach lessons |
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| What is the poet Hakuin's nationality? |
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| It's meaning requires meditation. |
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| What can be inferred by the first line of Haikuin's poem ""Past Present Future: Unattainble""? |
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| Which of the following characteristics describe Rip Van Winkle? |
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| He was a simple, good-natured man who was content in almost any circumstance.,He played with the village children and got along with the village wives.,He had an aversion to any work that might be profitable. |
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| Which of the following characteristics best describes Dame Van Winkle? |
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| She was a shrew who was always nagging and complaining |
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| What was Rip Van Winkle's first thoughts upon awakening after his long sleep? |
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| He feared how Dame Van Winkle would react to his long absence and wondered what excuse he could make to her. |
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| What drove Rip Van Winkle to go hunting with his dog, Wolf? |
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| Both Rip and Wolf wanted to escape from the incessant nagging of Rip's wife. |
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| The author claims that the tale of Rip Van Winkle originated |
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| among papers belonging to Diedrich Knickerbocker which were discovered posthumously. |
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| How did Diedrich Knickerbocker prefer to get his historical information? |
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| He prefered to get stories from people because he found that he got more information that way |
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| Which of the following descriptions most resembles the Kaat-Skill Mountains as they are described in Rip Van Winkle? |
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| The Kaat-Skills were a place of almost magical colors that changed with each season and each change of the weather. |
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| Which of the following incidents occurred during Rip Van Winkle's journey with the stranger? |
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| Rip helped the stranger carry a keg of liquor up the side of a mountain.,Rip and the stranger came to a hollow that resembled an amphitheater and found a group of men playing nine-pins. |
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| When did Rip Van Winkle begin to understand how long he had been away? |
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| When he found that his beard had grown an entire foot. |
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| What political events had occurred during Rip Van Winkle's long sleep? |
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| The United States had won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was hailed as a hero.,The people were discussing things like voting, liberty, members of congress and Bunker Hill. |
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His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion—a cloth jerkin strapped around the waist—several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. |
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A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed. |
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Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheater, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud. |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. |
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It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. |
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Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely established; and it is how admitted into all historical collections as a book of unquestionable authority. |
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He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. |
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…but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds, and sometimes taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. |
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Their visages, too, were peculiar: one had a large head, broad face, and small, piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat set off with a little red cock’s tail. |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, where is the time machine hidden? |
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| in the pedestal of the sphinx statue |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, what is the fourth dimension? |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, why does the Time Traveller remove the levers from his machine? |
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| to prevent others from using the machine |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, which of the following brushes the Time Traveller with its antennae? |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, the Eloi remind the Time Traveller of: |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, which of the following does the Time Traveller not retrieve from the museum? |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, what is the name of the creatures who live above ground? |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, what does the Time Traveller bring back from the future |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, what is the Palace of the Green Porcelain? |
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| In H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, as time passes what happens to the sun? |
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aerobic |
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| an organism requiring air for life |
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chronicle |
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aerosol |
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| a solution in a pressurized container |
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asteroid |
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annuity |
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| an amount of money paid every year |
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asynchronous |
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| not happening at the same time |
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archaic |
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cosmic |
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| relating to a vastness like space |
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millennium |
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bicentennial |
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astral |
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archeologist |
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| one who studies items and cultures from the past |
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aerodynamic |
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| designed to be the least resistant to air flow |
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chronological |
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| arranged in order of time |
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aerodynamic |
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| designed to be the least resistant to air flow |
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A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed. |
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He now suspected that the grave roysterers of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. |
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| Parallelism in literature is: |
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| when separate parts of a sentence or stanza are balanced by using similar constructions |
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| Under Zen Buddhism what is the most effective way to achieve insight? |
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| The structure of an Italian Sonnet is |
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| two quatrains and a sestet |
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| It's meaning requires meditation. |
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cosmopolitan |
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| worldly and sophisticated |
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Their visages, too, were peculiar: one had a large head, broad face, and small, piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat set off with a little red cock’s tail. |
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He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. |
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aerobic |
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| an organism requiring air for life |
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| How many lines does a sonnet have? |
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…but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds, and sometimes taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. |
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Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely established; and it is how admitted into all historical collections as a book of unquestionable authority. |
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retroactive |
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| applying to a situation in the past |
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| President Kennedy's goal, after the Russians launched Sputnik was: |
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| to put a man on the moon before Russia did |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. |
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| "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." This quote is an example of: |
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It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. |
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| What were Haikuin's beliefs based upon? |
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Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheater, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud. |
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His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion—a cloth jerkin strapped around the waist—several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. |
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aerosol |
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| a solution in a pressurized container |
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annuity |
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| an amount of money paid every year |
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retrospective |
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| a look backward at past events |
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| Freedom of speech is not something for which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights argues. |
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| The Code of Hammurabi is generally a document about fundamental human rights. |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not apply to every person living in the world. |
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| The Code of Hammurabi is focused upon providing retribution for those who are wronged. |
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| Modern Language Association |
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| When putting an in-text citation in your paper, you must do all of the following except: |
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| put the entire web address |
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| When should you use an in-text citation? |
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| every time you use a fact or a piece of information from a source. |
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| If you used the article "Global Warming" by Sandra Smith on p. 12 in Time magazine, what would your in-text citation be? |
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