Englisht unit 2 review
Read these sentences from Hafiza's essay comparing biographies and autobiographies. One difference between biographies and autobiographies is immediately noticeable: the narrator's point of view. Biographies are written from a third-person perspective, while autobiographies are written from a first-person perspective. Which quotations from Enrique's Journey provide evidence supporting Hafiza's point that this text is a biography? Select two options.
"Enrique's palms burn when he holds on to the hopper. He risks riding no-hands. Finally, he strips off his shirt and sits on it." "Enrique's head throbs. The sun reflects off the metal. It stings his eyes, and his skin tingles. It drains the little energy he has left."
Read the topic sentence from Asher's analysis of Enrique's Journey. To demonstrate Enrique's intelligence and resourcefulness, Nazario depicts his response to the challenges of interacting with local people in Oaxaca. Which sentences from the biography best support Asher's analysis? Select two options.
"He stops at a barbershop. His hair is curly and far too long. It is an easy tip-off. People here tend to have straighter hair." "'¡Órale, jefe!' he says, using a phrase Oaxacans favor. 'Hey, chief!' He mutes his flat Central American accent and speaks softly and singsongy, like an Oaxacan."
Which statement best supports the author's purpose in "Children of the Drug Wars," which is to persuade readers that the United States should do more to help immigrant children from Honduras?
"These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service."
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. And let me tell you something else. They have sheep here that have no ears, nor even ear-holes; but in the place where ears ought to be they have little horns. They are small creatures and very pretty. And here is something else that may strike you as marvelous: their domestic animals—sheep, oxen, camels, and little ponies—are fed on fish. They are reduced to this diet because in all this country and in all the surrounding regions there is no grass; but it is the driest place in the world. Which detail from the passage best shows a subjective perspective?
"They are . . . very pretty."Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. This province produces great quantities of excellent white incense, and also dates in great abundance. No grain is grown here except rice, and not much of that; but it is imported from abroad at a big profit. Fish is plentiful, notably tunnies of large size, which are so abundant that two of them can be bought for a Venetian groat. The staple diet consists of rice, meat, and fish. What is the author's reason for writing this text?
Read these sentences from Yasmin's essay. Nazario believes that Central American children like Enrique who come to the United States today are refugees and should be treated that way. If they were, she says, such children would not repeatedly have to face the dangers of migration, which bring tears to my eyes. Which word or phrase should Yasmin revise to eliminate informal and subjective language?
"which bring tears to my eyes"
Which in-text citation is correctly formatted in MLA style?
(Smith 179)
What is the difference between a theme and a universal theme?
A theme is a specific statement, while a universal theme is a broad idea.
The following sentence has a dangling modifier. After reading the book it was based on, several key plot elements were missing from the movie. Which revision best corrects the error in this sentence?
After reading the book that the movie was based on, I noticed that the movie was missing several key plot elements.
Based on the map, which Arabian city will Marco Polo describe after Kalhat if he continues northwest across the Arabian Sea?
Based on the map, which Arabian city will Marco Polo describe after Kalhat if he continues northwest across the Arabian Sea?
Which underlined phrase is a prepositional phrase?
Before passing out the test, the teacher asked students to close their books.
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service. Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. The MS gangsters decide to retaliate and throw the gangster off the train. Enrique refuses to participate, creating a rift. "If you are MS, you have to kill 18th Streeters. And if you are 18th Street, you must kill MS. I wasn't like that," Enrique says. After the fight with his friends, halfway through Chiapas, the gang members stop riding with Enrique. That night, without their protection, the six men beat him on top of the train. How is the author's purpose similar in both excerpts?
Both describe situations in which people are expected to commit crimes or face violence.
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person. Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades. What do the excerpts have in common?
Both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents.
Based on the map, where does Marco Polo go after he visits Hormuz and continues to travel east? Select two options.
Cathay, Mongolia
Read the paragraph. Neighbors are already looking forward to the grand opening of the Englewood Aquatic Center and the recreation that the center's Olympic-sized pool will provide. With proof of address, residents will be able to sign up for discounted swimming lessons and attend weekly open swim sessions for free. The new swimming facility will take two years to build. It will be state of the art. Which revision uses a phrase to combine the last two sentences?
Constructing this new state-of-the-art swimming facility will take two years.
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. You may take it for a fact that the people of this country live on dates and salt fish, of which they enjoy abundant supplies. But admittedly there are some among them, men of wealth and consequence, who eat foods of better quality. Which statement best reflects the author's opinion about dates and salt fish?
Dates and salt fish are not high-quality foods.
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Jack shouted so loudly that Ralph jumped. "What? Where? Is it a ship?" But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. "Of course! They'll lie up there—they must, when the sun's too hot—" Ralph gazed bewildered at his rapt face. "—they get up high. High up and in the shade, resting during the heat, like cows at home—" "I thought you saw a ship!" "We could steal up on one—paint our faces so they wouldn't see—perhaps surround them and then—" Indignation took away Ralph's control. "I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!" "But we want meat!" "And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!" "I was working too—" "But you like it!" shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt! While I—" How are the universal themes "the conflict between an individual's desires and the community's needs" and "the tension between freedom and responsibility" best developed in this passage?
Golding uses conflict to show the disagreement between the boys' goals.
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Jack quested ahead. They went more slowly than Ralph had bargained for; yet in a way he was glad to loiter, cradling his spear. Jack came up against some emergency of his craft and soon the procession stopped. Ralph leaned against a tree and at once the daydreams started swarming up. Jack was in charge of the hunt and there would be time to get to the mountain— Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors. . . . When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books—they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly. They were dog-eared and scratched. There was the bright, shining one about Topsy and Mopsy that he never read because it was about two girls; there was the one about the magician, which you read with a kind of tied-down terror, skipping page twenty-seven with the awful picture of the spider; there was a book about people who had dug things up, Egyptian things; there was The Boy's Book of Trains, The Boy's Book of Ships. Vividl
Golding uses internal thoughts to highlight how the boys' lives have changed on the island.
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. They set off again, the hunters bunched a little by fear of the mentioned beast, while Jack quested ahead. . . . Ralph leaned against a tree and at once the daydreams started swarming up. Jack was in charge of the hunt and there would be time to get to the mountain— Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors. . . . When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books—they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly. They were dog-eared and scratched. There was the bright, shining one about Topsy and Mopsy that he never read because it was about two girls; there was the one about the magician, which you read with a kind of tied-down terror, skipping page twenty-seven with the awful picture of the spider; there was a book about people who had dug things up, Egyptian things; there was The Boy's Book of Trains, The Boy's Book of Ships. Vividly they came before him; he could have reached up and touched them, could feel the weight and slow
He highlights the contrast between the hunt and Ralph's memories.
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. They try to get friendly with the migrants, telling them they have already done the train ride. Maybe they can offer tips? Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. They ask, "Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you have any money?" How does the narrative technique of characterization support the author's purpose in this excerpt?
It helps create uneasiness.
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. Moreover, the Mara Salvatrucha street gangsters, some deported from Los Angeles, always prowl the train tops looking for sleepers. Many MS gangsters settle in Chiapas after committing crimes in the United States and being expelled to their home countries in Central America. The police in Chiapas are more forgiving of gangs than those in El Salvador or Honduras. How does the meaning of the underlined word, prowl, support the author's purpose in this excerpt? Select two options.
It indicates that the gangsters are looking for vulnerable people.,It supports the idea that the gangsters are involved in criminal activities.
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." To ensure this isn't a sham process, asylum officers and judges must be trained in child-sensitive interviewing techniques to help elicit information from fearful, traumatized youngsters. All children must also be represented by a volunteer or government-funded lawyer. Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that recruits pro bono lawyers to represent immigrant children and whose board I serve on, estimates that 40 percent to 60 percent of these children potentially qualify to stay under current immigration laws—and do, if they have a lawyer by their side. The vast majority do not. The only way to ensure we are not hurtling children back to circumstances that could cost them their lives is by providing them with real due process. The text repeats the word children. How does this repetition serve the author's purpose?
It reminds readers that young, innocent lives are being harmed by failed policies.
Read the paragraph. Last night I was startled. A raccoon crawled into one of the trash cans behind my house. It couldn't escape, and it hissed at me when I was taking out the trash. I was so surprised that I ran back into the house! I was relieved when a park ranger was able to rescue the raccoon and return it to its natural habitat. Which revision best uses a phrase to combine the first two sentences?
Last night, I was startled by a raccoon that had crawled into one of the trash cans behind my house.
The following sentence has a misplaced modifier. Tired of studying and writing research papers, summer vacation came as a relief to the student. Which revision corrects the error in the sentence?
Summer vacation came as a relief to the student, who was tired of studying and writing research papers.
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Hormuz is a great and splendid city on the sea, governed by a malik and with several cities and towns in subjection to it. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. The climate is excessively hot—so hot that the houses are fitted with ventilators to catch the wind. The ventilators are set to face the quarter from which the wind blows and let it blow into the house. This they do because they cannot endure the over-powering heat. Which statement best explains the author's perspective about living in Hormuz?
The author is impressed by the hot climate and the people's response to it.
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. I should add that ships cannot sail to the other islands that lie farther south, beyond Madagascar and Zanzibar, because the current sets so strongly towards the south that they would have little chance of returning. Therefore they do not venture to go. You may note that ships coming from Maabar to this island make the voyage in twenty days, whereas the return trip takes them all of three months; and this is due to the continual southward set of the current. It flows in the same direction the all time—southward, ever southward. These more southerly islands, which men do not willingly visit because of this southward drift, are very numerous, and it is said that they are inhabited by gryphon birds, which make their appearance here at certain seasons of the year. What indicates that the author's purpose is to inform readers about travel south of Madagascar and Zanzibar?
The author shares facts and specific details about the difficulty of sailing in the region.
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. Enrique greets the dawn without incident. The stars recede. The sky lightens behind the mountains to the east, and mist rises off the fields on both sides of the tracks. Men trot by on burros with tin milk containers strapped to their saddles, starting their morning deliveries. Which narrative technique does the author include in this excerpt, and how does it support the author's purpose?
The author uses setting to show a sense of accomplishment.
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Kalhat is a large city lying inside the gulf which is also Kalhat. It is a fine city on the sea-coast 600 miles north-west of Dhofar. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet. They are subject to Hormuz; and whenever the malik of Hormuz is at war with neighbors more powerful than himself, he comes to this city, because it is strongly built and situated, so that here he is afraid of no one. No corn is grown here, but it is imported by sea from other places. This city has a very good port, much frequented by merchant ships from India. They find a ready market here for their wares, since it is a centre from which spices and other goods are carried to various inland cities and towns. Many fine war horses are exported from here to India, to the great gain of the merchants. The total number of horses shipped to India from this port and the others I have mentioned is past all reckoning. Which detail best supports the author's opinion that Kalhat is a secure city?
The malik of Hormuz fears no one when he is in Kalhat.
Read the paragraph. Volunteering at the animal shelter in my neighborhood has been a very rewarding experience. I started volunteering with a good friend of mine during summer vacation last year. Volunteering at the shelter is a lot of hard work, and it isn't always fun. Volunteers spend a lot of time cleaning out cages. What does the gerund phrase "volunteering at the animal shelter" contribute to the text?
The phrase acts as a noun that is the subject of the sentence.
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Now that I have given you this second-hand account of the gryphon bird, let me add that the Great Khan sent special emissaries here to learn about these islands, and again to treat for the release of a previous emissary who had been detained as a captive. And these later emissaries, and the other who had been held captive, had much to tell him of the marvels of these strange islands. I assure you that they brought back with them the tusks of a wild boar of monstrous size. He had one of them weighed and found that its weight was 14 lb. You may infer for yourselves what must have been the size of the boar that had such tusks as this. Indeed they declare that some of these boars are as big as buffaloes. There are also giraffes in plenty, and wild asses too. Altogether their beasts and birds are so different from ours that it is a marvel to hear tell of them and a greater marvel to behold them. To return for a moment to the gryphon birds, I should explain that the islanders call them rukhs and know them by no other name and have no idea what a gryphon is. But I feel sure from the monstrous size they attribute to the birds that the
There are plenty of giraffes and wild asses on the islands. The wild boars on the island are as big as buffaloes, with 14 lb tusks. The gryphon birds are monstrous in size.
Read the passages from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Passage 1 Simon poked his head out carefully. "You're chief. You tell 'em off." Ralph lay flat and looked up at the palm trees and the sky. "Meetings. Don't we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk." He got on one elbow. "I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running. Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting." Jack flushed. "We want meat." "Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming." Passage 2 "Jack! Jack! You haven't got the conch! Let him speak." Jack's face swam near him. "And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing—" "I'm chief. I was chosen." "Why should choosing make any difference? Just giving orders that don't make any sense—" "Piggy's got the conch." "That's right—favor Piggy as you always do—" "Jack!" Jack's voice sounded in bitter mimicry. "Jack! Jack!" The universal theme of Passage 1 is t
They both show that it is difficult to impose authority on those who prefer freedom.
Read the passages from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Passage 1 "The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? Is a fire too much for us to make?" He flung out an arm. "Look at us! How many are we? And yet we can't keep a fire going to make smoke. Don't you understand? Can't you see we ought to—ought to die before we let the fire out?" There was a self-conscious giggling among the hunters. Ralph turned on them passionately. "You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see?" He spread his arms wide and turned to the whole triangle. "We've got to make smoke up there—or die." Passage 2 "The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" But Jack was shouting against him. "Bollocks to the rules! We're strong—we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat—!" He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. At once the platform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams, and
They both show that putting desires before responsibility can put one's community at risk.
Which literary elements typically appear in a travelogue? Select three options.
a person's account of their experiences, descriptions of sights, cultures, climates, and lands drawings, photographs, maps, or memorabilia
What would best conclude an essay comparing different genres?
a summary of the main points of comparison and contrast
What is a universal theme?
an idea that everyone can relate to in a text
Read the sentence. The hair-care product is now available in all of our stores. Which word does the underlined phrase modify?
available
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. "You got to be tough now. Make 'em do what you want." Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem. "If I blow the conch and they don't come back, then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway. I can't see what they're doing but I can hear." The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. They were chanting something and littluns that had had enough were staggering away, howling. Ralph raised the conch to his lips and then lowered it. How does this passage use conflict to develop the universal theme of the importance of hope to human happiness?
by showing that Ralph is worried about blowing on the conch
What are elements of a body paragraph in a comparative essay? Select four options.
details evidence examples a topic sentence
Read the sentences. Alaskan brown bears are known to be fierce and protective parents. Encountering a bear and its cub could be dangerous, and hikers should be particularly cautious. Which phrase is a gerund phrase?
encountering a bear
Read the sentence from Nikita's analysis of "The Children of the Drug Wars." Nazario feels that refugee kids totally shouldn't be sent back to the same dangerous things they've left. This sentence should be revised to make it more
formal
Read the sentence from Skylar's comparative essay, and decide how they can edit informal, subjective language. The narrative becomes scarier when Enrique can no longer keep his eyes open. Which choice best replaces the underlined word to make their language objective and formal?
more suspenseful
Read the excerpt from The Travels of Marco Polo and study the map. When the traveler leaves Kuh-banan he goes for fully eight days through a desert. . . . After these eight days he reaches a province called Tun and Kain, where there are cities and towns in plenty. It is situated on the northern borders of Persia. There is an immense plain here, in which stands the Solitary Tree, which the Christians call the Dry Tree. Based on the excerpt and the map, what makes the journey to Kain difficult?
mountains and dry conditions
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." To permanently stem this flow of children, we must address the complex root causes of violence in Honduras, as well as the demand for illegal drugs in the United States that is fueling that violence. What literary device supports the author's purpose, which is to show what has led to the refugee crisis?
repetition
Golding. Ralph overrode them. "And another thing. We nearly set the whole island on fire. And we waste time, rolling rocks and making little cooking fires. Now I say this and make it a rule, because I'm chief: We won't have a fire anywhere but on the mountain. Ever." There was a row immediately. Boys stood up and shouted and Ralph shouted back. "Because if you want a fire to cook fish or crab, you can jolly well go up the mountain. That way we'll be certain." Hands were reaching for the conch in the light of the setting sun. He held on and leapt on the trunk. "All this I meant to say. Now I've said it. You voted me for chief. Now you do what I say." They quieted, slowly, and at last were seated again. What is the universal theme of this passage?
society's dependence on authority
Hiroshi is planning to write an essay comparing news reports and editorials. Which ideas should he brainstorm about in order to write an effective essay? Select four options.
the characteristics of editorials the characteristics of news reports how news reports and editorials are similar how news reports and editorials are different
Which details are important to notice when comparing and contrasting two texts from different genres? Select three options.
the point of view the language use the author's purpose
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. He passed his tongue across dry lips and scanned the uncommunicative forest. Then again he stole forward and cast this way and that over the ground. The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages. Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly. What is the universal theme of this passage?
the relationship between civilization and nature
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting. Swearing, he turned off the trail and pushed his way through until the forest opened a little and instead of bald trunks supporting a dark roof there were light grey trunks and crowns of feathery palm. Beyond these was the glitter of the sea and he could hear voices. Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down. He did not notice when Jack spoke. "Got any water?" Ralph looked up, frowning, from the complication of leaves. He did not notice Jack even when he saw him. "I said have you got any water? I'm thirsty." Ralph withdrew his attention from the shelter and realized Jack with a start. What is the universal theme of this passage?
the tension between freedom and responsibility
Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. "The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" But Jack was shouting against him. "Bollocks to the rules! We're strong—we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat—!" He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. At once the platform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams, and laughter. The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight. Ralph found his cheek touching the conch and took it from Piggy. "What's grownups going to say?" cried Piggy again. "Look at 'em!" How is the universal theme of the conflict between an individual's desires and the community's needs developed in this passage?
through Jack's response toward the rules
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. They have sheep here that have no ears, nor even ear-holes; but in the place where ears ought to be they have little horns. They are small creatures and very pretty. And here is something else that may strike you as marvelous: their domestic animals—sheep, oxen, camels, and little ponies—are fed on fish. They are reduced to this diet because in all this country and in all the surrounding regions there is no grass; but it is the driest place in the world. The fish on which these animals feed are very small and are caught in March, April, and May in quantities that are truly amazing. They are then dried and stored in the houses and given to the animals as food throughout the year. I can tell you further that the animals also eat them alive, as soon as they are drawn out of the water. Why does the author include information about the dry climate? to explain why the sheep have horns but no ears to explain why the sheep in the region are so small to explain why people in the region have to feed their animals fish to explain why there are such large quantities of fish available
to explain why people in the region have to feed their animals fish
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." If many children don't meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden. What is the author's purpose in this excerpt?
to express an opinion about US asylum policies
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Many marketable commodities are produced here. And many ships come here laden with cloth of gold and various silken fabrics, and much else besides that I will not attempt to specify, and exchange them for local products. They arrive and depart with full cargoes and the merchants make a handsome profit on the transaction. Why does the author include information about trade in this text?
to illustrate the wealth and commercial success of the region
What are the main purposes of a travelogue? Select three options.
to inform readers about a place, landscape, or culture to persuade readers to visit a certain locationto entertain readers with stories of a journey
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. Let us go on now to tell of a large city which forms part of the province of Aden but has a petty ruler of its own. This city, which lies about 400 miles north-west of the port of Aden, is called Shihr. It is ruled by a count, who maintains strict justice in his domain. He has several cities and towns under his sway but is himself subject to the sultan of Aden. The people are Saracens and worship Mahomet. The city has a very good port; for I assure you that many merchant-ships come here well loaded with goods from India, and from here they export many goods to India. In particular they export innumerable fine chargers and sturdy pack-horses of great worth and price, on which the merchants make a handsome profit. What are most likely the author's purposes for writing this text? Select two options.
to inform readers by describing the city of Shihr to inform readers by giving facts about the ruler of Shihr
Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of The Travels of Marco Polo. This province produces great quantities of excellent white incense, and also dates in great abundance. No grain is grown here except rice, and not much of that; but it is imported from abroad at a big profit. Fish is plentiful, notably tunnies of large size, which are so abundant that two of them can be bought for a Venetian groat. The staple diet consists of rice, meat, and fish. What is the author's reason for writing this text?
to inform the reader about the products and foods that a region offers
What are the primary functions of body paragraphs in a comparative essay that focuses on genres? Select four options.
to provide evidence that supports the writer's ideas to analyze the texts, ideas, or objects being compared to highlight similarities between the texts being discussed to point out differences between the texts being discussed
Read the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. Enrique's head throbs. The sun reflects off the metal. It stings his eyes, and his skin tingles. It drains the little energy he has left. He moves around the car, chasing patches of shade. For a while, he stands on a narrow ledge at the end of a fuel tanker. It is just inches above the wheels. He cannot let himself fall asleep; one good shake of the train, and he would tumble off. What is the author's purpose in this biography excerpt?
to show how dangerous it is to leave Honduras
cRead the excerpt from Enrique's Journey. Enrique puts Chiapas behind him. He still has far to go, but he has faced the beast eight times now, and he has lived through it. It is an achievement, and he is proud of it. The excerpt refers to Chiapas as "the beast." What is the purpose of using this metaphor in the excerpt?
to show how threatening travel through Chiapas is