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The Nightingale and the Rose
Reading Activity
Answer the Short Response Questions?
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Which character trait does NOT apply to the Nightingale?
Naive
Concerned
Idealistic
Selfish
How do you know that this character trait does not apply to the Nightingale? Refer to the text in your response.
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How do the other animals (besides the Nightingale) respond to the Student's grief?
They think that he is foolish.
They weep with him.
They have suffered similar pains in their lives.
They are uninterested in his feelings.
How do you know this? Use the text to support your response.
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Why does the Student want a red rose so badly?
His mother is sick and only the petals from a red rose can heal her.
A witch cast a spell on his lover and he needs a red rose to break the curse.
He is going to a dance and he thinks that he will get noticed if he wears a red rose.
The girl whom he likes says that she will dance with him for a red rose.
How do you know this? Quote the text in your response.
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What does it cost the Nightingale to make a red rose?
His song
His life
His freedom
His wings
His colors
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Which statement about the Student is TRUE?
He understands the Nightingale.
He honors the Nightingale's sacrifice.
He knows the cost of the red rose.
He behaves ungratefully.
How do you know this? Refer to the text in your response.
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Which is the correct order of events?
The Lizard laughs at the Student; the Oak-tree asks for one more song; the Nightingale makes a rose
The Oak-tree asks for one more song; the Nightingale makes a rose; the Lizard laughs at the Student
The Student argues with the girl; the Student criticizes the Nightingale's song; the Nightingale looks for a rose
The Nightingale looks for a rose; the Nightingale hears the Student's problem; the Student argues with the girl
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Which figurative language technique is used in the following sentence?
"The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky."
"The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky."
Understatement
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
How do you figure? Explain your answer in a complete sentence or two.
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Why does the Professor's daughter reject the rose?
There was a bee in the flower.
She is allergic to roses.
It does not go with her dress.
She wanted a white rose.
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Which idiom best applies to when the Student tells the girl that she is "ungrateful"?
The pot calls the kettle black.
Cross that bridge when you come to it.
The devil is in the details.
It's best to hear it straight from the horse's mouth
Explain how this idiom applies to this situation.
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Which statement best expresses a theme in this text?
True love can overcome all obstacles and bounds.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Money can't buy everything.
Don't give your all to someone who won't appreciate it.
How is this theme expressed in the story? Use the text in your response.
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