Using your knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, answer the question.

The cake came out of the oven quite deformed.

What is the root of the underlined word above?

A.

form

B.

formed

C.

deform

Read the aphorism. Love your neighbor; yet don't pull down your hedge. What is the important idea in this aphorism from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack? Give assistance to your neighbors, no matter what the cost.

What connotative sense does the word "nibble" carry?

What stories about the black panthers were typically covered by the media?

In which of the following sentences is an adverb used correctly? A. She sang the song beautiful. B. She is a beautifully singer. C. She sang beautifully. D. She sang a beautiful song.

What does the word weightless mean in the following sentence? The astronauts were weightless as they orbited Earth

Which sentence is the best example of foreshadowing? A. Carmen woke up with a headache and decided to call in sick to work. B. Even though it looked like rain, Carmen didn't take her umbrella to work. C.

This is a word or phrase that identifies or explains the noun that it follows.

Who introduced a new focus on realism?

What rhetorical device does Thomas Jefferson use in this passage? He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people: parallelism irony alliteration allusion

Write three sentences explaining the historical context and setting of The Call of the Wild. Think about the descriptions of Buck's journey.