Read these words aloud and underline the silent letters. 1. honest
6. gnaw
2. yacht
7. foreign
3. doubt
8. psychic
4. muscle
9. column
5. knead
10. almond

Using apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, brackets, and parentheses correctly correct each error in the use of apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, brackets, and parentheses in the following sentences. you may need to add, delete, or change marks of punctuation. doesnt this turkey look oh, no, the cat must have gotten up on the counter!

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. match each excerpt to the type of characterization it uses.