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1
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who helped the young woman who fell from the sky

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the waterfowl

2
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one evidence of how the twins kept things in balance is that they

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modified each other’s creations to make them more practical

3
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incorrect vocab

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i plan to locomotion to work

4
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when de Vaca and his exploration party attempted to continue their voyage

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their barge overturned and they ended up back on the island

5
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incorrect vocab

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the band worked hard and gave a nominal concert, winning the prize for best performance

6
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incorrect vocab

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the happy climbers celebrated the abominable conditions on the mountain

7
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according to the text of Edward’s sermon, who are in the hands of an angry God

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“all you that were never born again”/”all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the might power of the Spirit…”

8
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what is the best way to combine the two sentences below using a coordinating conjunction?
The road was closed due to flooding. We decided to take another route.

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The road was closed due to flooding, so we decided to take another route

9
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good example of persuasive writing

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I believe our school should give each graduating student a school jacket and pin

10
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which of the following is not an aphorism?

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“they should know that public opinion is steadily turning to the light of truth”

11
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incorrect vocab

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i have a new absolve to get my homework done early every night

12
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in section 9 of his writing on “self-reliance,” Ralph waldo emerson tells us that a great soul will speak in hard words what he thinks today, and speak in hard words what he thinks tomorrow even though

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they contradict each other

13
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in section 6 of his writing on “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks of an experience of “crossing a common in snow puddles at twilight” that brought him,

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perfect exhilaration

14
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if you were writing that one of the transcendentalist ideals found in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” is the importance of not being a conformist but rather being self-reliant, which passage below would you cite to best support your thesis

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sec 5.: whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

15
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incorrect vocab

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the play director’s request for more dramatic expression was both perturbation and valuable

16
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which quote from Thoreau’s Walden is the best example of the transcendentalist ideal of emphasizing spiritual well-being over financial well-being

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sec 19: love your life, poor as it is. you may …have some pleasant…hours, even in a poorhouse

17
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incorrect vocab

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he showed up with roses, which was a very nice blunder after her surgery

18
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in the underlined passage from section 5 of his writings on Civil disobedience, thoreau is saying that

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government decisions should be made by conscience, not by majority

19
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not an aphorism

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sec 10: my civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with…

20
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in line 118 from sec. 52 of his poem “song of myself,” whitman uses the sound device of
line 118: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world

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onomatopoeia

21
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which of the elements of gothic fiction below is in a story that begins, “once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered weak and weary?”

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element 8

22
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incorrect vocab

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there was a propitious feeling of dread about that house that made us run in terror

23
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in which of the following paragraphs does washington irving use description to characterize tom walker’s feelings about his wife in ‘the devil and tom walker”

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paragraph 22

24
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incorrect vocab

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after his hard day at work, her complaining and scolding hit him like a balm

25
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the narrator in “the raven” asks the raven

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if in paradise he shall see his lenore

26
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which element of narrative poem do lines 103-104 of “the raven” portray

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falling action

27
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incorrect vocab

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there was a blasphemous look in her eyes as she fondly stroked the mane of her horse

28
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in paragraph 5 of “the masque of the red death,” the subdued., light laughter that emerges as the chiming of the clock fades away indicates that

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the revelers did not take the clock chimes, the passage of time until death, seriously

29
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incorrect vocab

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it was a deferential moment before Sue realized that she had read the wrong part

30
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in the following passage form paragraph 33 of “dr. heidegger’s experiment,” hawthorne uses what figure of speech?
paragraph 33: …he sat in a high-backed, elaborately carved oaken chair, with a gray dignity of aspect that might have well befitted that very Father Time, whose power had never been disputed, save by this fortunate company

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personification

31
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if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did not get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?

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p 41: …the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, …grand-sires

32
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incorrect vocab

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the kids, not being hungry, quaffed their sandwiches

33
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in which sentence is the modifier placed correctly

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according to the critics, the violinist Paganini was known for composing difficult pieces

34
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in which sentence is the modifier written correctly

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after checking the references thoroughly I concluded that the news article was ready for print

35
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incorrect vocab

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the rich green of the first and the unexpected rising of sheer cliffs proved a monotonous scene

36
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incorrect vocab

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the winds roared and beat the waves upon the shore, making a tranquil scene

37
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in Twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” jim smiley named his prize betting animals after

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historical figures

38
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incorrect vocab

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talin was shocked to learn he had the winning number and had just won the legacy

39
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in the extended smilie of the undelrined passage form paragraph 15 of “a wagner matinee,” the narrator makes an observation about the soul – that

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though after excruciating suffering it may seem to whither, the soul never dies

40
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incorrect vocab

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he couldn’t ingenuously understand what the foreigners were saying

41
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incorrect vocab

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she gave them an intangible comment of contempt and walked out of the room

42
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according to paragraph 11 of “to build a fire,” what was the danger of the springs?

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they never froze – posing a threat of rbeaking through thin surface ice and getting wet

43
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incorrect vocab

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we drove into the prosperous, rundown neighborhood where beggars crouched on every corner

44
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in edith wharton’s “april showers,” doctor dace’s confession that he wanted to be a genius and wrote a novel that didn’t get published shows him as

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a real person

45
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incorrect vocab

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this is an elusive that we ought to act on right away

46
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according to paragraph 11 of “the story of an hour,” during the process of accepting her husband’s death Mrs. mallard’s strongest impulse was

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self-assertion

47
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one of the ironies in kate chopin’s “the story of an hour” is that, for a brief moment

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mr. mallard discovered he was, supposedly, dead; mrs. mallard discovered she was newly alive

48
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in lucinda matlock’s description of the setting of spoon river, edgar lee masters uses the modernist writer’s convention of

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imagery

49
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in the following lines of his poem “chicago,” carl sandburg uses which poetic device?
laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle

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extended simile

50
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how does the poet use personification in describing his city in liens 18-19 of “chicago”?

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the poet gives the city a “head” it “sings’ and is “proud”

51
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what line expresses how the poet felt as he first compared the two roads in robert frost’s”the road not taken”

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line 6: then took the other, as just as fair

52
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in lines 18-19 of his poem “the road not taken” frost uses the poetic device of repetition to

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add emphasis

53
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in pound’s poem “the river merchant’s wife: a letter,” who is the letter written to

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the narrator’s husband

54
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in Ezra Pound’s poem “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” the image of the monkeys making a “sorrowful noise overhead”

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echoes the river merchant’s wife’s sorrow at his absence

55
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in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” lines 22 and 24 contrast

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“heavy woods” with “white flowers”

56
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the unusual punctuation,. spelling, and spacing e.e. cummings uses in his poem “in just” makes the reader

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stop and take note/pay more attention to the words

57
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the message of marianne moore’s poem “poetry” is that

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good poetry is genuine, useful and real

58
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incorrect vocab

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i don’t know why she wasn’t more obtuse when asked for her expert opinion

59
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in lines 79-86 of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot juxtaposes great, historical, biblical events with the trivality of

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tea and cakes and ices

60
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which sentence below has an essential or nonessential subordinate clause that is punctuated incorrectly?

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the special discount is available for anyone, who is an authorized member

61
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an annotated bibliography can be written prior to writing a research paper

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or is sometimes written instead of a research paper

62
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when gathering sources for your annotated bibliography, avoid

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taking just whatever topics comes up in your searches, assess them first

63
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writing an annotated bibliography before beginning to write a research paper can help students

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make sure they have an opinion – a thesis statement – that they can find facts to support

64
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what is the benefit to the “.gov” internet domains for scholarly research sources

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the “.gov” sites are generally useful and reliable – especially for statistics

65
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to access databases for your research or annotated bibliography project,

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ask your school or public librarian for instructions or for the access code

66
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the first line of an MLA format basic citation begins with

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the author’s last name

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