Read the following excerpt from a narrative about a trip to an amusement park: (1) Overhead, the roller coaster boomed down the tracks, shaking the ground beneath my feet. (2) The salty smell of hot dogs with mustard hit my nostrils and made my mouth water in anticipation. (3) I couldn’t wait to board the Pirate Ship ride. (4) In front of me, the rainbow lights on the Test Your Strength game zipped up and down in rhythm to the pop music blasting through the speakers.

Which sentence needs more descriptive details? Why?

A.
sentence 1; The reader can feel and hear the roller coaster but can’t see it.
B.
sentence 2; The smell of the hot dog isn’t described in an interesting way.
C.
sentence 3; The sentence doesn’t give the reader any details about the Pirate Ship ride.
D.
sentence 4; The reader doesn’t know the shape or size of the Test Your Strength game in front of the narrator.

Match the definition or example to the term.

Which lines in this excerpt from act iv of shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reflect the conflict of person versus the unknown?

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.