Q: Why does the author use compare and contrast in "Here Is New York"?
A: to draw attention to the different types of New Yorkers and how they define the city
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Q: What effect does imagery have on the meaning of "Here Is New York" by E.B. White?
"And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference...
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A: The vivid imagery describes the vitality of the city and the passion that unifies those who make New York their home.
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Q: Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?
Select each correct answer:
A: "Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."
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"...he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."
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Q: Why did Anna Quindlen write "A Quilt of a Country"?
A: to show that despite its differences, America is still a country that unites in times of strife
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Q: How does Anna Quindlen use antithesis to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?
A: It calls attention to the opposing forces that define America.
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Q: How does the author uses personification in "Here Is New York" to advance his viewpoint?
A: It makes the city come alive for the reader and helps readers to see New York as the author does.
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Q: Which quotations from "A Quilt of a Country" develop the author's viewpoint that America's diversity is what unifies it?
Select each correct answer.
A: "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."
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"That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."
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Q: Which quotation most accurately explains why Anna Quindlen wrote "A Quilt of a Country"?
A: "Perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings."
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Q: How does Anna Quindlen use paradox to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?
A: By calling attention to the contrasting ideas that America was founded upon, the writer reinforces her main idea.
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Q: Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?
Select each correct answer.
A: "The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover."
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"Or they may work in a midtown office and may let a whole year swing round without sighting Governors Island from the sea wall."
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Q: How does the paradox of "all the failures" and "spectacularly successful" advance Anna Quindlen's purpose in this excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country"?
"It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful.
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A: It emphasizes that America has been successful in finding unity.
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