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Reading between the lines
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Before going on stage
I checked the clock for the third time. Behind the curtain, the audience’s voices mingled with the scrape of chairs. I unfolded my paper, then folded it again, smoothing its corners with damp fingers. “You know your lines,” Sam whispered. I nodded without looking at him. When my name was called, I took a deep breath and stepped towards the light.
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1
What suggests that the narrator is worried? Find two details in the passage.
find evidence
2
Choose one of these details and explain how it conveys that feeling without naming it directly.
interpret
3
A reader says, “By the end, the narrator is no longer afraid.” Do you agree? Write two or three sentences using evidence from the final sentence. Distinguish what the text states from what you infer.
build an argument
Reading between the lines