1.why would you do a research to prepare for a personal comparison and contrast essay?
a. to find additional examples to support your main idea.
b. to find people to interview from your family.
c. to find refrences for your essay.
d. to evaluate websites.

2.why is it important to use an organizational pattern in comparison and constrast essay?
a. to provide an outline of your essay.
b. to provide details supporting the statements
c. to demonstrate your thesis
d. to clearly show the relationship between the items your are comparing

my answers
1.a
2.b

Exit which of the following events best reflects a change in the overall mood of the family? a. woody comes home from the war. b. a new baby is born. c. jeanne is baptized. d. mama gets a job outside the camp.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

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