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CAHSEE 1.1 Passage Drill

CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?


ACT Aspire English Videos 72 videos

ACT Aspire English: It's All in the Past (Tense)
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.that such a thing is possible

ACT Aspire English: Revising for Clarity
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.came to be born

ACT Aspire English: "Their" vs. "His or Her"
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Choose the best alternative to the text below.to record their album

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ACT Aspire Reading Videos 60 videos

ACT Aspire Reading: Summarizing Events
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Which of the following sentences provides the best description of the events in the passage?

ACT Aspire Reading: Recognizing Explicit Details
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Lucy runs to the edge of Kensington Gardens because...

ACT Aspire Reading: Understanding Sequence of Events
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Immediately before Lucy lays her hand on her father's knee, she was...

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ACT Reading Videos 80 videos

ACT Reading 1.5 Social Science Passage
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ACT Reading 1.5 Social Science Passage. Based on its context in the passage, which of the following would be the best definition for the word...

Prose Fiction: Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?
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ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of the following best describes the overall purpose of this passage?

ACT Reading 1.10 Prose Fiction
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Prose Fiction Drill 1.10. Which of the following best describes the narrator's attitude toward his father?

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ASVAB Videos 125 videos

ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Summary
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Summary. Which of the following best describes the purpose of this passage?

ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Vocabulary-In-Context
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.2 Vocabulary-In-Context. In this passage, the word "illustrious" most nearly means...what?

ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Vocabulary-In-Context
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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 1.3 Vocabulary-In-Context. The word "preposterous" most nearly means what?

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CAHSEE ELA Videos 97 videos

CAHSEE ELA 1.1 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.1 Writing Strategies. Which of the following sentences, if placed before sentence 1, would be the most effective introductory sentence?

CAHSEE ELA 1.2 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.2 Writing Strategies. Which of the following statements is supported by details or evidence from the student's draft?

CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies. What is the best way to combine sentences 10 and 11?

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CAHSEE Passages Videos 61 videos

CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill. In this line from the story, the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is...what?

CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?

CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?

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CAHSEE Reading Videos 100 videos

CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?

CAHSEE 1.4 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.4 Passage Drill. What does the use of flashbacks accomplish in "Graduation"?

CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill
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CAHSEE 1.5 Passage Drill. In this line from the story, the words buzz and pulsated suggest the crowd is...what?

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CAHSEE Writing Videos 60 videos

CAHSEE ELA 1.2 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.2 Writing Strategies. Which of the following statements is supported by details or evidence from the student's draft?

CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.3 Writing Strategies. What is the best way to combine sentences 10 and 11?

CAHSEE ELA 1.4 Writing Strategies
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CAHSEE ELA 1.4 Writing Strategies. Which sentence would provide additional support that fairy tales were not intended to be ideal worlds?

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GED Videos 65 videos

GED Reasoning through Language Arts 5.3 Writing Skills
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 5.3 Writing Skills. Which of the following statements provides the best assessment of the argument in Article 2?

GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.5 Language Conventions and Usage
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.5 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?

GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.6 Language Conventions and Usage
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.6 Language Conventions and Usage. Which choice best completes the sentence?

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SAT Reading Videos 211 videos

SAT Reading: Inferring Information from a Passage
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Thoreau moved to Walden - now what? He... ate only a few, simple meals. No 3 meals a day schedule for him. He wanted to diet complexity and calorie...

SAT Reading: Determining the Implicit Meaning of a Phrase in President Obama's Speech
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The forces of Facism and Communism - war technology in WW2 has changed. We defeated the bad guys by working together. The times they are a changin'.

SAT Reading: Which Characteristic Does President Obama Imply All Americans Share?
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What do we share as Americans? What traits? What is our national character? Obama defines it as a map to the trajectory laid out regarding change f...

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SAT Writing Videos 90 videos

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.1 Sentence Structure
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What do austronauts and Michael Jackson have in common? Watch this video on sentence structure to find out!

SAT Writing and Language Drill 7.2 Effective Language Use
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Learn about effective language use from austronauts that like hoarding moon rocks in this SAT writing drill!

SAT Writing & Language: Sentence Transitions at the Beginning of an Essay
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What's the whole essay about? How does time control or matter to the essay as a whole?

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TSI Videos 304 videos

Revising a Letter by Adding Transitions
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Which is the best way to revise and combine sentences 1 and 2?

TSI Writing: Adding a New Sentence to Improve a Letter's Structure
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Where would the following sentence best be placed?

TSI Writing: Choosing the Best Introductory Transition
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Which of the following is best to insert at the beginning of sentence 8?

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Texas EOC Videos 119 videos

Texas EOC English 1: 3.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Summarize the main idea of the following selection about women during WWII. 

Texas EOC English 1: 2.7 Understanding and Analysis across Genres
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Can you find the important difference between "Old Mistresses Apologue" and "Suggested Husbands for Fanny Burney"? Unfortunately, the answer isn't...

Texas EOC English 1: 3.5 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Time to show off your strength like Rosie the Riveter! ....Er....sorry. Not by flexing your arms. That won't help you much with this question. Why...

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Texas EOC II Videos 78 videos

Texas EOC English 2: 2.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Head over to /video/subjects/test-prep/texas-eoc-ii/texas-eoc-english-ii/ f...

Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Want to pull an Oliver Twist and ask us for more? We've gotcha covered. Click on this link for more Texas EOC goodness. Porridge not included. 

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