Exam 4: Describing

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -The traditions on either side of the hyphen dwell in me like siblings, still occasionally sparring , one outshining the other depending on the day.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Wu Tsing liked to own things made by _______________.

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 -The author uses the senses to communicate his dominant impression. List three details from this paragraph and the senses they draw on.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Do you think things will continue to go as well for the narrator in the future? Why or why not?

Sensory details refer to

Description paints a picture in words to help a reader ________________ something you have seen or heard or done.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -I tired of anything that was not a novelty .