lesson 1.12 - voices of modernism (1920s to 1940s) unit test

how is a participle formed?Answer - from a verb identify the participial phrase in the sentence below. picking up the pen, he signed his name on the guestbook.Answer - picking up the pen what is a gerund?Answer - a verb form that is used as a noun decide whether the sentence contains a misplaced and/or dangling modifier or no error. having flipped the canoe, all the camping gear was lost in the river.Answer - dangling identify the underlined portion of the following sentence. /jacob had to buy a new cell phone/ after dropping his old one in the pool.Answer - independent clause identify the underlined portion of the following sentence. /the children built a sandcastle/ while their father read a book.Answer - independent clause an adverbial clause is a subordinate clause that is used as an adverb to modify a verb, an adjective, or a(n)Answer - adverb an infinitive can be used as all of the following exceptAnswer - as a direct object read the following passage from "the chrysanthemums" by john steinbeck. "it must be nice," she said. "it must be very nice. i wish women could do such things." "it ain't the right kind of life for a woman." her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "how do you know? how can you tell? she said. "i don't know, ma'am," he protested. "of course i don't know. now here's your kettles, done. you don't have to buy no new ones." "how much?" "oh, fifty cents'll do. i keep my prices down and my work good. that's why i have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway." elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "you might be surprised to have a rival some time. i can sharpen scissors, too. and i can beat the dents out of little pots. i could show you what a women might do." he put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "it would be a lonely life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night." he climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "thank you kindly ma'am," he said. "i'll do like you told me; i'll go back and catch the salinas road..." the wagon turned and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river. elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. her shoulders were straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. her lips moved silently, forming the words, "good-bye-- good- bye." then she whispered: "that's a bright direction. there's a glowing there." the passage suggest that in elisa's time and place, men and womenAnswer - had to choose work based on their gender read the following passage from "the chrysanthemums" by john steinbeck. "it must be nice," she said. "it must be very nice. i wish women could do such things." "it ain't the right kind of life for a woman." her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "how do you know? how can you tell? she said. "i don't know, ma'am," he protested. "of course i don't know. now here's your kettles, done. you don't have to buy no new ones." "how much?" "oh, fifty cents'll do. i keep my prices down and my work good. that's why i have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway." elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "you might be surprised to have a rival some time. i can sharpen scissors, too. and i can beat the dents out of little pots. i could show you what a women might do." he put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "it would be a lonely life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night." he climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "thank you kindly ma'am," he said. "i'll do like you told me; i'll go back and catch the salinas road..." the wagon turned and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river. elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. her shoulders were straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. her lips moved silently, forming the words, "good-bye-- good- bye." then she whispered: "that's a bright direction. there's a glowing there." all the following words describe how elisa feels in the passage exceptAnswer - content read the following passage from "the chrysanthemums" by john steinbeck. "it must be nice," she said. "it must be very nice. i wish women could do such things." "it ain't the right kind of life for a woman." her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "how do you know? how can you tell? she said. "i don't know, ma'am," he protested. "of course i don't know. now here's your kettles, done. you don't have to buy no new ones." "how much?" "oh, fifty cents'll do. i keep my prices down and my work good. that's why i have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway." elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "you might be surprised to have a rival some time. i can sharpen scissors, too. and i can beat the dents out of little pots. i could show you what a women might do." he put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "it would be a lonely life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night." he climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "thank you kindly ma'am," he said. "i'll do like you told me; i'll go back and catch the salinas road..." the wagon turned and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river. elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. her shoulders were straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. her lips moved silently, forming the words, "good-bye-- good- bye." then she whispered: "that's a bright direction. there's a glowing there." all of the following literary techniques are used in the excerpt above exceptAnswer - metaphor read the following passage from "the chrysanthemums" by john steinbeck. "it must be nice," she said. "it must be very nice. i wish women could do such things." "it ain't the right kind of life for a woman." her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "how do you know? how can you tell? she said. "i don't know, ma'am," he protested. "of course i don't know. now here's your kettles, done. you don't have to buy no new ones." "how much?" "oh, fifty cents'll do. i keep my prices down and my work good. that's why i have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway." elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "you might be surprised to have a rival some time. i can sharpen scissors, too. and i can beat the dents out of little pots. i could show you what a women might do." he put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "it would be a lonely life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night." he climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "thank you kindly ma'am," he said. "i'll do like you told me; i'll go back and catch the salinas road..." the wagon turned and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river. elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. her shoulders were straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. her lips moved silently, forming the words, "good-bye-- good- bye." then she whispered: "that's a bright direction. there's a glowing there." in line three, when elisa says, "how do you know? how can you tell?" she is revealing an attitude ofAnswer - defiance [blank] is an author's attitude toward a piece of work.Answer - tone how does the narrator in ernest hemingway's short story "in another country" view himself in comparison to the other soldiers?Answer - he thinks he is not as brave as they are when a(n) [blank] stands for an idea or emotion, it is called a symbol.Answer - object which of the following words does not have the same meaning as renaissance?Answer - remembrance according to the speaker in "mending wall", why does the neighbor feel that good fences make good neighbors?Answer - they maintain privacy and prevent meddling what motivates the narrator in ralph ellison's "the black ball" to stretch the truth, or tell lies, throughout the story?Answer - it is a survival mechanism which words sums up why the narrator in langston hughes's short story "why, you reckon?" helps rob a white person?Answer - hunger a cleverly worded statement that reveals truth is an example ofAnswer - aphorism in medias res means that a story begins [blank] of a storyline.Answer - in the middle which of the following is an example of an internal conflict?Answer - audrey fights her fear of high places to become a zip-line guide choose the meaning of the bold word in each excerpt. "the heavy clouds on the horizon were dark and /portentous/."Answer - threatening choose the meaning of the bold word in each excerpt. "seeing sophie's /chastened/ demeanor was enough to make olivia forgive her for completely forgetting their plans to go out on friday."Answer - remorseful choose the meaning of the bold word in each excerpt. "he wanted to launch into a long /expostulation/ and explanation, but he only said: 'the night i locked her out--' and she interrupted, 'i don't feel up to going over that again.'"Answer - justification choose the meaning of the bold word in each excerpt. "duncan wagged his finger /roguishly/ at charlie."Answer - mischievously choose the meaning of the bold word in each excerpt. "'what do you mean you still haven't located my royal tiara?' bellowed the princess. she pursed her lips and angrily brushed by the half-dozen /fawning/ servants."Answer - cowering