A Good Place for Maggie by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman (excerpt)

The gas station attendant kicked a couple of tires. "Guess it’ll make it," he said. "But last I heard that road was bad. Watch yourself."

The old man’s words stayed with her as she drove up into the mountains. She began to feel shaky. This was the first time she had driven outside of Los Angeles. Still, last night she had poured over maps and written everything down; she knew exactly where she was going. So far, everything had been all right.

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Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the sentence.

The author uses the gas station attendant’s warning to create tension by foreshadowing that .

options:

a. Maggie may not be a good driver

b. the attendant does not think Maggie has enough gas

c. the attendant does

In the play "sorry wrong number"which part of the story can you find heightened tension and suspense?

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

Match the term to its meaning 1. introduction 2. body paragraphs 3. conclusion - draws the readers attention - the key points in a few sentences - each with only one main idea