SAME EXAM! Read this scene from The Miracle Worker Act 3.

(ANNIE is now alone on the stage. She turns, gazing around at the stripped room, bidding it silently farewell, impassively, like a defeated general on the deserted battlefield. All that remains is a stand with a basin of water. . . .)

How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

The stage directions show Annie’s manner of speaking.

The stage directions illustrate the appearance of the room.

The stage directions reveal the historical time period.

The stage directions describe how characters react to Annie.

Which statement correctly analyzes how the passages work together to create a central idea?

During editing and proofreading, you do not need to

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.