Answer Key
PART TWO: PATTERNS OF ESSAY DEVELOPMENT
8 Description
Questions on the Student Essays, 170–172
1. c
2. I’d been visiting my cousins . . .
3. c
4. b
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5. b. He was staring off into space, idly tapping his spoon against the table, while she
sight
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drew aimless parallel lines on her paper napkin with a bent dinner fork.
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c. The blouse is made of heavy eggshell-colored satin and reflects the light in its
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folds and hollows.
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d. Her brows are plucked into thin lines, which are like two pencil strokes added to
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highlight those fine, luminous eyes.
6. dull hum, silently waiting, deserted cooking area
7. b
8. The most haunting feature in the photo . . .
9. a
10. a
Questions on the Professional Essay, 180–181
1. Lou’s coffee shop is like “a fond but dysfunctional family.”(Wording may vary.)
2. d
3. Lou is concerned that she is smoking rather than eating.
4. b
5. sight, hearing, smell
6. d
7. After a moment . . .
8. c
9. a
10. b
Prewriting (Writing Assignment 2), 184–185
A. Plucked eyebrows
Oval face
Wavy brown hair
B. Silver earrings
Bracelet
Ring
C. Ring from another man
Signature (“Sincerely . . .”)
9 Narration
Questions on the Student Essays, 190–192
1. “Adopting a Handicap”
2. Thanks to a new building program . . .
3. Pine Street
had a lot of antique stores . . .
4. I hope my parents and I . . .
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5. a. My palms reddened and my wrist and forearm muscles started to ache as I tugged at the
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heavy metal wheels.
sight
b. I could not see the minister, the choir, or the altar.
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hearing
c. The club thudded against the side of Victor’s head, making him yelp with pain.
sight
sight
d. As we ran, I kept seeing him sprawled on the ground, blood from our beating
trickling into his eyes.
6. Victor, the biggest of us . . .
7. three
8. a. Coping with the wheelchair (or Learning how to use the wheelchair)
b. Dealing with additional problems in the wheelchair
9. After, When, As
10. a
Questions on the Professional Essay, 197–198
1. Answers will vary. One possibility: Vingo returned from prison to find that his wife still
loved him and wanted him back.
2. b
3. a
4. b
5. Answers may vary. Two examples:
Vingo tells his story “slowly and painfully and with great hesitation.”
Vingo asks his wife to leave a signal (the handkerchief) rather than confront her directly.
6. Examples of Vingo’s being honorable: He doesn’t express any self-pity about being in jail.
He owns up to his crime. He offers his wife her freedom.
7. Fort Lauderdale, New Jersey, Washington, Jacksonville, the 34th Street
Terminal in New York, Philadelphia, Brunswick
8. But if she didn’t . . .
9. d
10. d
10 Examples
Questions on the Student Essays, 207–208
1. Some kids can be . . .
2. Paragraph 2 in “Everyday Cruelty”
3. To pass time as I walk . . .
4. Then they did even more cruel things . . .
5. A young woman chimed in . . .
6. Explore the rise of Nazi Germany; play a trivia game; hear the life story of a stranger
7. At lunchtime on Wednesday, Then, As people stared, Finally
8. But no part of everyday life . . .
9. “Altered States”: Confronted with inventions . . .
10. b
Questions on the Professional Essay, 215–216
1. b 7.
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2. c 8.
a. When, The next year
