Which statement is not a characteristic of a personal narrative?
The homemade turkey place mats waited patiently on the table for everyone to sit down and eat. Does the sentence use the literary device of simile, personification, or anthropomorphism?
“¡Ay, Dios mío! Come over here!” Abuela yelled for me. “What is that blue thing?” she asked, alarmed by the pop-up timer in the turkey, which she hadn’t noticed before and I had forgotten to point out. “Relax, Abuela. It’s nothing. It’s supposed to pop when the turkey is cooked,” I explained. “Really? Cómo inventan los americanos. They make everything so easy,” she said, relieved.
Describe the relationship between Richard Blanco and his grandmother based on the dialogue from The Prince of Los Cocuyos.
Jennifer has Mostly neutral feelings about her name and identity.
Jennifer has mostly positive feelings about her name and her identity.
Jennifer has mostly negative feelings about her name and her identity.
That train rolled on all day long, to the song of the metal against the tracks, the blur of the towns and villages moving past my eyes. Bertie Bowman uses sensory details to describe what he sees and hears on his first trip to Washington. Why might he have used sensory details?
One repeating theme of Richard Blanco’s “The First Real San Giving Day” is the issue of conflicting American and Cuban cultures. Which two sentences best support that theme? (Select all that apply.)
Which words in the paragraph best show the author’s feeling of incompleteness and lack of belonging?
Which text structure is generally used to organize a personal narrative?
Why does author Jennifer Lou call “Hello, My Name Is” a graphic essay?
What is the meaning of ecstatic in the sentence? The entire class was ecstatic about the announcement that school would be cancelled because of snow.
Which sentence uses the word incessantly correctly?
What is an article of clothing that might make someone easily discernible on a crowded beach?
What does the word realization mean in the sentence: "Ahmed’s realization about how to solve the problem came just in time."?
What are vice grips designed to do?
Which sentence is NOT written with correct punctuation and capitalization?
Which sentence uses personification to describe flowers being moved by the wind?
Which sentence best uses strong verbs and adjectives to give the reader a clear picture of the action?
by John Wesley Powell
Early in the spring of 1869 a party was organized to explore the canyons. We were to descend the Green River to the Colorado River. Then we would go down to the foot of the Grand Canyon.
May 24, 1869.—The good people of Green River City turn out to see us start. We raise our little flag and push the boats from shore. The swift current carries us down.
In our four boats, we take with us rations to last ten months and abundant supplies of clothing. We also have a large quantity of ammunition and two or three dozen traps. To build cabins, repair boats, and for other needs, we have axes, hammers, saws, other tools, and a quantity of nails and screws. For scientific work, we have barometers, thermometers, compasses, and other instruments.
J. C. Sumner and William H. Dunn are my boatmen in the “Emma Dean.” Sumner was a soldier during the late war. He is a fair-haired, delicate-looking man, but a veteran in experience. He has crossed the Rocky Mountains in midwinter on snowshoes. He spent the winter of 1886–87 in Colorado, to make some natural history collections for me, and succeeded in killing three grizzlies, two mountain lions, and many other animals.
Dunn was a hunter, trapper, and mule-packer in Colorado for many years. He dresses in buckskin with a dark oily luster. This is doubtless due to the fact that he has lived on fat venison and killed many beavers since he first donned his uniform years ago. His dark raven hair falls down to his back, for he dislikes shears and razors.
In trying to avoid a rock, an oar is broken on one of the boats. The current is swift, and in the confusion two other oars are lost overboard. The men seem quite embarrassed, much to the amusement of the other members of the party. Catching the oars and starting again, the boats once more begin down the stream.
During the afternoon we run down to a point where the river sweeps the foot of an overhanging cliff. Here we camp for the night. There are two hours before sunset, so I climb the cliffs. Barren desolation is stretched before me. Yet, there is a beauty in the scene.
Standing on a high point, I can look off in every direction over a vast landscape, with salient rocks and cliffs glittering in the evening sun. Away to the south the Uinta Mountains stretch in a long line. High peaks thrust into the sky. There are snowfields glittering like lakes of molten silver, and pine forests in somber green, and rosy clouds playing around the borders of huge, black masses. Now the sun goes down, and I return to camp.
Which sentence in the second paragraph tells the reader that this may be an important day in history?
Which two details best support the idea that the expedition team is well prepared to survive a long and difficult journey? (Select all that apply.)
How is this excerpt from Canyons of the Colorado the same as the other stories in this unit? (Select all that apply.)