Part A Read this section from Red Scarf Girl to analyze the use of
connotations and answer the follow-up questions.
What connotation does the word clean have in this passage?
A. It has a mostly positive connotation.
B. It has a mostly negative connotation.
"As I told you before, you are your own person. If you want to make a
clean break with your black family, then you can be an educable child
and we will welcome you to our revolutionary ranks. He gave Chairman
Jin a look, and Chairman Jin chimed in, "That's right, we welcome you."
O C. It has a mostly neutral connotation.
O D. It has only a denotation, no connotation.
Part B
"Jiang Ji-li has always done well at school. In addition to doing very well
in her studies, she participates in educational reform." Teacher Zhang
added.
Which words or phrases from the context best support your answer to
Part A?
O A. "You are your own person," "break"
"That's very good. We knew that you had more sense than to follow
your father," Thin-Face said with a brief, frozen smile.
B. "educable chilly welcome you"
C. "studies," "educational reform"
D. "brief frozen smile"

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

Which most closely analyzes the information about briony's dreams of becoming an olympic athlete?

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.