ELA Days 1-10.pdf
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Text-Dependent Questions
Directions: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
1.
PART A: Which phrase best identifies the central idea of this text?
Without the help of family, Anne Frank did not have any chance of surviving the
Holocaust.
Anne Frank was one of many victims of the Holocaust, but her story lives on
because of her diary and the people that helped to preserve her story.
We know about the horrors of the Holocaust because Jewish children like Anne
Frank wrote about their experiences.
Anne Frank displayed tremendous optimism in the face of danger and she was a
great inspiration to Miep Gies.
2.
PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

Read the sentence: though margo moved as slowly as a snail in the morning, she somehow ended up being the shining star at the corporations breakfast meeting. which phrase from the sentence is an example of the authors use of simile? a) being the shining star b) somehow ended up c)the corporations breakfast meeting d)moved as slowly as a snail

What do critics say about art happenings and flash mobs

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile