"The Swimming Contest"

9 September 2022
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All of the following can be used by an author to create foreshadowing in a narrative *except*
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the use of figurative language to create an impression.
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All of the following lines of dialogue from "The Swimming Contest" contain foreshadowing of events in the story *except*
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"I rest if I've got nothing else to do. Not because there's a God, but just if I feel like it."
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Which of the following events from "The Swimming Contest" is the clearest indicator of the story's final outcome?
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The narrator sinks when he attempts to race across the swimming pool.
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Context clues help the reader
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decipher the meaning of an unknown word.
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"Back in the house, Abdul-Karim put on a record, wound the handle and adjusted the soundbox. The sound of a kamanji and drum and cymbals issued forth, immediately followed by an Arab song, sung in a sweet plaintive voice, with delicate, floating trills." In this sentence, "plaintive" *most likely* means
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sorrowful.
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Jim and Charles really disliked _______ second class of the day.
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their