Read the sentences from “Fish Cheeks.” After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.”

Her mother's word choice reveals that Amy Tan thinks American girls are

pretty.
smart.
fortunate.
predictable.

Consider the music used in the scene where scout meets boo radley for the first time, and answer each of the following questions in about two to three sentences. how would you describe the tone of the music while boo is hiding behind the door? compare that to the tone of the music when he is brought into the light and scout smiles at him. how does the music change? what effect does that change have on the way the viewer perceives the character of boo radley?

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Me ! select the correct answer. which sentence is an oxymoron? a. to have peace, we must go to war. b. a glass can be viewed as either half full or half empty. c. the lawyer was deceptively honest with his clients. d. spies do not dress like spies. e. though the lab was messy, there was a method to his madness.