ead the following excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.Some one was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten–a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!Which aspect of narrative writing does it demonstrate?A.ClimaxB.ConflictC.ConclusionD.ExpositionSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What word did Helen Keller first learn to spell?Group of answer choicessitwatertreedoll

Re-read the following passage:"The way her bright hazel eyes lit up as she spoke about her passions, the way her pure happiness seemed almost infectious and the way I found myself mirroring the constant smile glued on her face. I liked the way she gave me her full attention as we spoke, fixated on the conversation, completely present. I liked the way she’d pause for a moment before responding, as though charging up all of her thoughts before launching them, speaking at lightning speed, so genuinely interested in our discussion that she was unable to hold the words back."What language device has been highlighted in bold?pathetic fallacya similepersonificationa metaphor

from Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe     Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water. Though I swam very well, I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath, till that wave having driven me, or rather carried me, a vast way on towards the shore, and having spent itself, went back, and left me upon the land almost dry, but half dead with the water I took in. I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavored to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again. However, I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could. By swimming, I could preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible. My greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would carry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.     The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body. I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore a very great way, but I held my breath, and assisted myself to swim still forward with all my might. I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water. Though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage. I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; and finding the water had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of the waves, and felt ground again with my feet. I stood still a few moments to recover breath, and till the waters went from me, and then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further towards the shore. But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.     The last time of these two had well-nigh been fatal to me, for the sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather dashed me, against a piece of rock, and that with such force, that it left me senseless, and indeed helpless, as to my own deliverance. The blow taking my side and breast, beat the breath as it were quite out of my body; and had it returned again immediately, I must have been strangled in the water; but I recovered a little before the return of the waves. Seeing I should be covered again with the water, I resolved to hold fast by a piece of the rock, and so to hold my breath, if possible, till the wave went back. Now, as the waves were not so high as at first, being nearer land, I held my hold till the wave abated, and then fetched another run, which brought me so near the shore that the next wave, though it went over me, did not so swallow me up as to carry me away. The next run I took, I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.5Select ALL the correct answers.Which two statements should be included in a summary of the passage? Crusoe is afraid he will be pulled further out to sea by the strong current Crusoe scales a grassy cliff and watches the waves at a safe distance. Because of rough and powerful waves, Crusoe struggles to get to shore. When a wave crashes him against a rock, Crusoe fears the worst. The sea repeatedly batters Crusoe, but he does not give up hope for survival.

The following text is adapted from The Story of My Life, a 1902 memoir by Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf.It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist. The task of writing an autobiography is a difficult one. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy. A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?It portrays the relationship Keller had with the natural environment throughout her childhood.eliminateIt demonstrates the way in which Keller’s superstitions created a childhood full of fantasy.eliminateIt explains Keller’s reluctance to document her life using a simile grounded in nature.eliminateIt uses figurative language to show that Keller can't fully recollect her childhood.

What did Helen Keller feel for the first time when she saw the doll that she haddestroyed?Group of answer choiceslonelinessa sweet joyrepentance and sorrowanger and frustration