The following qt is about: The Story of Prometheus and Pandora's Box One way to interpret the gods in Greek myths is to see them as personifications of forces in
nature like the sea or lightning, or of abstract concepts like wisdom or forethought. Yet
Baldwin says this kind of reading is “an error” that takes the charm out of these tales and
reduces their “precious gold into utilitarian iron.” Why might Baldwin believe this? What
happens to characterization or other literary elements in the story if we read the gods as
personifications instead of literally?

The first step in making a mental model for a compare-and-contrast text is a. comparing the two things being described. b. finding important details in the text. c. contrasting the two things being described. d. connecting details to what is already known.

How many questions do you have to answer to be able to message someone on

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.