1. Though this is a short chapter, it is shocking one for Okonkwo's family. Why? What happens that is shocking?

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Match these items. 1. academic language letter or letters added to the end of a word that changes the part of speech and meaning of the root word 2. social language language spoken with peers in social settings 3. suffix language spoken in academic settings 4. root word letter or letters added to the beginning or end of a word, root, or stem, or the middle of a word, to modify its meaning 5. prefix initial word before adding a suffix and/or prefix 6. affix letter or letters added to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of the word

What is universal theme? the reason an author is writing revealed through the author’s background, historical context, and the story the central message or insight revealed through a story and that applies to anyone, anywhere the time, place, and social/historical context in which a story takes place the technique of using language to evoke a sense of time and place