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2021 STAAR English 2 - Fiction: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

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1.

Read this quotation from paragraph 17 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.


Why does the narrator use a metaphor to describe his response to playing the piano?

E2.4F
2.

In paragraph 8 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Luc suggests that the narrator —

E2.4F
3.

In paragraph 1 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, which idea is introduced?

E2.4F
4.

Read this quotation from paragraph 16 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.


What can the reader infer about the narrator’s wife based on her words?

E2.4F
5.

In paragraph 17 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, how does the narrator feel about playing the Stingl piano in the piano shop?

E2.4F
6.

In paragraph 1 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, why does the narrator describe the piano as “a strange and wonderful combination of the robust and the delicate”?

E2.8F
7.

Read this quotation from paragraph 1 of the excerpt from The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.


What is the narrator’s purpose for including this description?

E2.8F