What is the main purpose of an informative essay?

to entertain the reader with amusing details

to tell a story for a general audience

to create a character who is vivid and interesting

to explain the relation of parts to a whole

What is added to the beginning of a word or root word?

Read the excerpt and answer the question. To add to the dolefulness of the former day, and the dismalness of the present night, my thoughts ran upon my losses and sad bereaved condition.

Select the line that uses inverted syntax. I wandered lonely as a cloud They flash upon that inward eye They stretched in never-ending line For oft, when on my couch I lie

Read this excerpt from the american spirit in literature, by bliss perry. this sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of human institutions, was quick in the consciousness of the gentleman adventurers and sober puritan

Correctly identify the interrupter in the sentence below. The brown soda and currant breads of Murphey-Flood's Bakery were declared to be delicious. a. of Murphey-Flood's Bakery c. to be delicious b. were declared d. brown soda and currant breads

Which of the following is an element of maya culture a. maya cities were well planned urban cities with roads, palaces, temples, and private homes b. the maya were hunter-gatherers who lived in small villages in south american rain forests c.

A pattern calls for 2 and 1/4 yards of material and 1 1/4 yards of linen how much total fabric is needed

The setting of 1984 is a dystopia because the government makes up the truth. True or False.

A type of personsal nonfiction is a/an

What type of rhyme is used by Emily Dickinson in these lines from "Emancipation?" You cannot drick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. A. Internal rhyme B. Slant rhyme C. Identical rhyme D. End rhyme