QUESTION 15 Fill in the blanks with the correct verb tense:

I got my first tattoo five years ago. I 1.(was one am) finally ready,
2.(wanted or had wanted) one for a few years before that. The day came, and I felt a little
nervous as I walked into the tattoo shop. However, the artist kindly
3.(reassured or had reassured)
me that no one 4.(had even died or ever died) in his chair, and the
tattoo went fine. Now, I still 5.(smiled or smile) every time I look at it.

Choose an answer.



Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

How does the allusion to icarus support the author’s tone ? a)it makes it clear that earhart, like icarus ,fell to her death .b)it emphasizes earhart’s failure in spite of her ambition. c)it stresses that the author views earhart’s fate as a mystery. d)it shows that the author sees earhart as a kind of legend can someone