Exam 4: Describing

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The narrator was kept awake for many nights by a _____________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Four posts held up a silk canopy, and at each post dangled large silk ties holding back curtains.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator's new home has what at each corner?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The narrator and her mother moved to a new house because __________________.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -I felt doomed by their pronouncement , misunderstood and gradually defiant.

In Joseph Bruchac's autobiographical description, which sense does the author predominantly use?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Wu Tsing had become rich through his ___________ factories.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Despite the luxurious setting, Tan includes a number of clues that indicate the situation may not be as positive as it first appears. What are these clues?

Effective description includes ________________ your readers your experience as opposed to simply telling them about your experience.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What language does Lahiri speak at home with her parents?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Which of the following terms does Lahiri identify with?

A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green-and-yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. -N. Scott Momaday -What dominant impression does N. Scott Momaday communicate in this paragraph?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator indicates that by having so many new and wonderful things she became

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Lahiri draws comparisons between specific details of Indian and American culture, like eating rice and dal or not going to Sunday school. What do the comparisons help the reader understand about the life experiences of Lahiri?

Which of the following sentences shows rather than tells?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Lahiri struggles about her identity as both Indian and ____________________.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Nameless, Tennessee, was a town of maybe ninety people if you pushed it, a dozen houses along the road, a couple of barns, same number of churches, a general merchandise store selling Fire Chief gasoline, and a community center with a lighted volleyball court. Behind the center was an open-roof, rusting metal privy with PAINT ME on the door; in the hollow of a nearby oak lay a full pint of Jack Daniel's Black Label. From the houses, the odor of coal smoke. -William Least-Heat Moon -How does Least-Heat Moon organize the details in this paragraph?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Are Lahiri's parents encouraging of her identity as an American? How do you think their comments about her ethnic identity might have affected her?

A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. Great green-and-yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. -N. Scott Momaday -How does Momaday organize the details in this paragraph?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Who is Yan Chang?