Read the passage.

feld is a shoemaker who came to america from poland. he has a named sobel. feld wishes that his daughter, miriam, would go to college. miriam enjoys reading books that sobel lends her, but she would rather work than go to school. feld admires a college student named max because he has worked hard to get an education.

in this summary of a passage from “the first seven years” by bernard malamud, what is the main plot element?

a. inciting incident, because it tells of feld’s wishes for miriam
b. rising action, because it describes events that lead to the climax
c. foreshadowing, because it hints at feld’s plans for max and miriam
d. exposition, because the summary describes the story’s characters

Which information would most likely be presented in graph form?

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret

Analysis that compares and contrasts the way two myths show one important feature of their culture