Ihave a few questions i need with; i have more, but i can wait on those ones.
8. read the following sentences from “first confession.”
then, to crown my misfortunes, i had to make my first confession and communion. it was an old woman called ryan who prepared us for these. she was about the one age with gran; she was well-to-do, lived in a big house on montenotte, wore a black cloak and bonnet, and came every day to school at three o’clock when we should have been going home, and talked to us of hell. she may have mentioned the other place as well, but that could only have been by accident, for hell had the first place in her heart.
which pair of words best describes ryan? 9. when an unexpected event occurs within the plot structure, it is called
13. read the following sentences from “day of the butterfly.”
she picked up a leatherette case with a mirror in it, a comb and a nail file and a natural lipstick and a mall handkerchief edged with gold thread. i had noticed it before. “you take that.” she said…
…all the presents on the bed, the folded paper and ribbons, those guilt-tinged offerings, had passed into this shadow, they were no longer innocent objects to be touched, exchanged, accepted without danger. i didn’t want to take the case now but i could not think how to get out of it, what lie to tell. i’ll give it away, i thought, i won’t ever play with it. i would let my little brother pull it apart.
the main conflict in these sentences can be identified as
17. read the following sentences from “day of the butterfly,” in which myra, who was hospitalized, is unwrapping gifts brought to her by her classmates.
she began to unwrap the presents, with an air that not even gladys could have bettered, folding the tissue paper and the ribbons, and drawing out books and puzzles and cutouts as if they were all prizes she had won. miss darling said that maybe she soul say you, and the person’s name with every gift she opened, to make sure she knew whom is was from, and so myra said, “ you, mary louise, you carol,” and when she came to mine she said, “ you helen.
which of the following best describes the relationship between myra and her classmates?
a. admiring. b. cordial. c. formal.*** d. warm. 19. read the following sentences from “the destructors.”
old misery – whose real name was thomas – had once been a builder and decorator. he lived alone in the crippled house, doing for himself, once a week you could see him coming back across the common with bread and vegetables, and once as the boys played in the car-park he put his head over the smashed wall of his garden and looked at them.
which of the following sentences is the best paraphrase of this excerpt?
a. old misery, a former builder and decorator, lived a peaceful life in his damaged house and made weekly trips for food. he paid little mind to the boys who played in the car-park.
b. old misery used to be a builder and decorator, but now he lived by himself in his damaged house. his weekly trips for food gave him cause to notice the boys who played in the car-park.
c. old misery had once been a builder and decorator and lived alone in his damaged house. he made weekly trips for food and once watched the boys playing in the car-park.***
d. old misery, or thomas, was a solitary man who had once been a builder and decorator. his house was damaged but he preffered to make weekly trips for food and saw the boys playing in the car-park.