Building Vocabulary Skills (4th Edition) Answer Key You are responsible for doing the exercises in the book on your own. After you have done each exercise‚ check your answers here. (The answers to Sentence Check 1 are on pages 129-130 of the book.) ----------------------- Chapter 1 Ten Words in Context: 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. b 6
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Reggae and bluegrass are two unique musical genres with some very similar aspects. By tracing the origins of these two types of music‚ it is evident that there is a certain relationship between these two radically different and immensely popular types of music. Both styles of music originated by popular demand. They dealt with the everyday issues of ordinary people in the 1930’s. By examining certain key aspects in the history and style of reggae and bluegrass - the roots of these types of music
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“Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden has a very dark feel as opposed to “She is gone”. The writer tells a story of his grief‚ and how he disconnects with his life after loosing someone he loved. There are no uplifting metaphors or promise that it gets better‚ just his deep grief and darkness. He uses the metaphors to a funeral “Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone. …” in the first part of the poem to set the mood‚ and tell us what his theme is. And then goes on to describe how much the person gone
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Baseball or Softball Strike one‚ strike two‚ strike three you’re out. These are things that are heard during a baseball or softball game. Both baseball and softball are sports that girls and boys participate in. There are skills required to play both sports but they can be learned. They also provide exercise for the individual that plays and entertainment for those who watch. Both games are extremely similar‚ but they also have many differences. Even though both sports appear different they are very
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Today with all of the technology around us we have many ways to find articles about information we are curious on; we can go on the internet and read articles from magazines to get information. But is all the information we get really a legitimate source that we can rely on for accurate facts? It is so easy to find bad sources that give us the correct information. A bad source isn’t one that has improper grammar or misspelled words. In fact it is an article that portrays bad references and resources
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Everyone likes to conform to match the norm‚ and will blindly follow if it means that they are part of the group. This conformity is heavily present in ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson‚ and ‘Examination Day’ by Henry Slesar. In both short stories‚ people conform to the traditions and routines that have been dictated to them. In ‘The Lottery’‚ a small town has a tradition of annually sacrificing one of their own‚ who is chosen by a raffle. The winner‚ a woman named Tessie Hutchinson‚ pleads that it
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Contrast/Comparison done for two oppositely opinionated text’s Let’s say that Kavanaugh is writer A and that Reed is writer B. Within both passages they each argue over the differences of America’s law’s regarding immigration. Kavanaugh would say that people leave Mexico for its violent and hostile lands‚ that is why‚ “We Should Blame Mexico.” However Reed would say that while Mexico is far from the best country of course and that its Americas fault from telling them all the things that they could
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high schools teach detailed knowledge and facts step by step. That is to say‚ they guide students attentively. In contrast‚ instructors in university go through the textbooks quickly. In view of them‚ they expected students to think independently and critically. On the other hand‚ teachers in high school usually take time to remind students of assignments and the date of tests. In comparison with high school‚ instructors in university offer a pre-scheduled syllabus. They discuss the course schedule and
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saying the drawing was unfair. I feel that the story chose her because nobody likes a sore loser when the drawing was that of a chance for everyone to be picked. 4. What are some examples of irony in this story? For example‚ why might the title‚ "The Lottery‚" or the opening description in paragraph one‚ be considered ironic? Ans: I don’t think there were any examples of
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Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 8th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 2002] 77). An objective point of view is told from any angle‚ but only provides the reader with what is seen and heard‚ such as in "The Lottery" (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 8th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 2002] 263). Omniscient and objective viewpoints can be compared by what is revealed to the reader‚ angles from which the story
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