1. Which event in "Borders" is an example of a flashback?
B. The narrator drinks an Orange Crush as the family drives Laetitia to the border
A flashback in a movie or story is something that takes place before the main story. It is generally defined as a sudden or disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past.
2. Which best describes the underlined phrase in the sentence below?
Living in Salt Lake City was Laetitia's dream.
A. gerund phrase
A gerund phrase is a phrase consisting of a gerund and any modifiers or objects associated with it. A gerund phrase functions like a noun in a sentence.
3. How is the underlined phrase in the sentence used in the sentence?
Frusturated by the woman's response the border guard repeated the question.
A. as an adjective
An adjective describes a noun. In this case, we are describing the border guard as frusturated by the woman's response.
