Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi." Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts. This excerpt is an example of which kind of characterization?

If you were making a persuasive speech about how students should take creative writing every year they are in school, which sentence would most effectively support that argument?

One legend states that the cause of the trojan war was in part due to a contest between the goddesses on olympus and an event called the “judgement of paris.” in at least 150 words, explain the contest and describe how it is believed to have started the trojan war.

Read each of the following statements and place a checkmark next to each true statement: test-makers give away answers to questions in other questions. a test-taker should check every 20 answers or so to make sure the questions and answers match. long passages on tests should be read quickly to save time. words like best, least, and worst require the test-taker to make judgments about the correct answer. test-takers should not try to answer the questions in their minds before reading over the answer choices. test-makers use the same letter three or four times in a row to trick test-takers.