Writing an opinion essay ( 120_150 words)
1. teenagers should use social media

Which of the following lines best presents the dominant moral of "The Monk's Tale"?A. He was a soldier with a manly heart / So dear to him was honest decency
B. Thus Fortune with a light / Turn of her wheel brings men from joy to sorrow.
C. He swore to sin no more, until the hour / Of death when at last he was interred, / He recognized God's mercy and his power.
D. And then he saw that of his own perdition / He was sole author and he fled away.

PLEASE HELPP!!! I WILL MAKE YOU BRAINIEST!!Read the excerpt from The Hobbit.


Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not, he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse. He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before he had the heart to make a joke again. "A mercy it is," he said at last to himself, "that I woke up when I did. I wish Thorin were living, but I am glad that we parted in kindness. You are a fool, Bilbo Baggins, and you made a great mess of that business with the stone; and there was a battle, in spite of all your efforts to buy peace and quiet, but I suppose you can hardly be blamed for that.


Question 1

Part A


What is the implied idea in the passage?



Bilbo is grieving but thankful Thorin is gone.


Bilbo is grieving but believes he is not responsible for what happened to the stone.


Bilbo is grieving but relieved they made peace.


Bilbo is grieving but is relieved there was no violence.

Question 2

Part B


Which sentence best supports the answer in Part A?



"He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before he had the heart to make a joke again."


"'A mercy it is,' he said at last to himself, 'that I woke up when I did. I wish Thorin were living, but I am glad that we parted in kindness.'"


"Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not, he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse."


"You are a fool, Bilbo Baggins, and you made a great mess of that business with the stone; and there was a battle, in spite of all your efforts to buy peace and quiet, but I suppose you can hardly be blamed for that."

Which of these sentences is correct?The cookies smelled so good while they baked; I couldn't wait for them to be finally done.
The cookies smelled so good while they baked, I couldn't wait for them to finally be done.
The cookies smelled so good while they baked; I couldn't wait for them finally to done.
The cookies smelled so good while they baked, I couldn't wait for them to be done finally.

A radio station plays a commercial. It features a famous singer introducing herself and saying that she listens to the station. What propaganda technique is being used to convince you that the station is the best? a. Facts and stats
b. Glittering generalities
c. Plain folks
d. Testimonial

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley. . . . He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter—the boy who lived!"Source: Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1997. 21. Print.



The excerpt above is from page 21 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling. Which passage represents a correctly integrated quotation from the excerpt above?

A.
A wind sweeps gently over the trimmed hedges of Privet Drive, which liess quiet and neat under the dark sky, not a place where one would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur (Rowling 21).
B.
The Harry Potter books are so entertaining because they paint a picture of a world in which we all want to live. We all long to find that extraordinary secret that will reveal our own special quality. Like little infant Potter waiting outside his aunt and uncle's house (Rowling 21), it's just a matter of time until we find that we are, after all, special.
C.
Harry Potter lies outside his aunt and uncle's house, unaware that his life has changed forever (Rowling 21). He lies "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous . . ." (Rowling 21).
D.
Rowling builds a sympathetic protagonist with Harry Potter from the beginning of the series. In one of his first scenes in the first book, the infant Potter lies on a doorstep "not knowing he [is] special, not knowing he [is] famous . . ." (Rowling 21). We are told that not only is this boy surely unique and worthy, but that he would have a truly ordinary childhood—just like the rest of us.

Which of the following options show parallel construction? A. “Being happy,” “Being sad,” and “Being depressed”
B. “Telling a story,” “Being informed,” and “The end”
C. “Face the music,” “Dancing in the rain,” and “Show your stuff”
D. “To get rich,” “Getting lazy,” and “Being happy”