1 = 3.15 Dictionary & Word Choice Quiz
QUIZ
Animal Intelligence 6
Read the dictionary entry.
Which meaning of influence best defines the word as it is used
in this sentence?
influence l'inflooans !
verb
Dara could influence my decision to vote for Joy in the student
body election
1. to affect the opinions of someone else
2. to cause others to take action
. to affect the opinions of someone else
noun
O an individual who exerts Influence
o
1. the ability to have an effect on the behavior, character, or
actions of someone else
2. an individual who exerts influence
the ability to have an effect on the behavior,
character, or actions of someone else
O to cause others to take action
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Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is different from honey. it offers a stronger sweet flavor, and like steel or plastic, it had to be invented. in the age of sugar, europeans bought a product made thousands of miles away that was less expensive than the honey from down the road. that was possible only because sugar set people in motion all across the world—millions of them as slaves, in chains; a few in search of their fortunes. a perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: that is the dark story of sugar. how does the comparison of sugar to honey reveal the authors’ purpose? it persuades readers that sugar tastes better than honey. it informs readers that there is a connection between slavery and sugar. it informs readers that honey had a major impact on society. it persuades readers that sugar is as important an invention as steel.

Match the audience to the description of each speech