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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Textual Analysis 3. Which of the following best summarizes the author's feelings about welfare?

What's an emotional appeal? Is that like when someone naturally attracts members of the opposite sex by crying all the time?

Want to share stories about your life and experiences but don't feel like posting up at a bus stop and talking to strangers a la Forrest Gump? Try...

Discerning fact from opinion is one of the most important skills a person can learn. If you can't master it, though, that's okay--just go into poli...

Similes are like, as smooth as sandpaper. Metaphors are babies and kittens. Wait, we didn't do that right, did we?

With more than 350 million books sold, Stephen King is one of the biggest names in horror writing. He used to write happy stories, but a few years...

Parentheses, dashes, and commas--oh my! Grammar nerds, you're about to be in your parenthetical element.

Everybody loves a good transition word. Additionally, everybody can tell when you're just trying to throw in transition words to sound fancy.

Today's video is brought to you by the em dash--not to be confused with the en dash, or the hundred meter dash.

Sure, we all enjoy our peace and quiet, but there would be no stories without a little conflict.

Okay, so we've all turned in an essay we wrote the night before in a desperate, caffeine-fueled fever dream... Ideally, though, there should probab...

Write your essay, take a break, watch a movie, eat a bagel... revise your essay, take a break, scroll through the internet for a while, eat all the...

It's important to make sure your sources are reliable by checking for references, authors, objectivity, and other criteria. Just because a website...

Book reports are all about you and your own understanding of a text. Book reviews just let you observe a book from a safe, judgmental distance.

Sherlock Holmes might be the most famous fictional detective, but he comes from a long line of sleuths going all the way back to ancient history.

Your how-to video doesn't have to be the next summer blockbuster, but it definitely can't hurt to add a touch of cinematic flair.

Ancient Egypt wasn't all mummies and pyramids. They had farming, and cats, and pharaohs, and cats, and also cats.

Whenever you're lamenting having to learn all the rules of English spelling and grammar, just be grateful you're not dealing with ancient Egyptian...

The human/animal hybrid deities of ancient Egypt definitely weren't messing around. Trust us, you don't want to mess with a cobra goddess.

You might know Jerry Spinelli as the author of some of your favorite books. We suppose it's a good thing for all of us that he wasn't that great at...