Developing a personal response to a short story: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson

English

The Short Story

Who wrote the story, Ten Minutes’ Musing?

Critical evaluation means how a text changes over time.

Critical evaluation means providing your opinion or personal response to a text.

Critical evaluation means you disagree with a text.

Which of the statements below is true? (Choose one.)

What words could you use to describe this rhetorical question? “Did you ever stop to see the analogy between a game of football and the interesting little game called life which we play every day?”

Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: "Nearly every boy in the school was in that seething, swarming mass,"

A polysyndetic list uses a comma after every term in the list.

A polysyndetic list uses a conjunction (and, or) after every term in the list.

Select the correct definition of a polysyndetic list.

Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: “It was a mob that screamed and howled, and kicked, and yelled, and shouted, and perspired, and squirmed…”

True or false: The boys are calm and skilful with the ball

True or false: They boys seem out of control but purposeful.

True or false: Some boys are standing on the sides, screaming and laughing.

Chaotic, excitable, uncontrollable, savage

Which set of words below best describe the mob of boys?

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