The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday

Test Practice

Compare and Contrast Text Organization

In your group, discuss this question about the organization of the selection.

1. Which statement describes the contrast between the narrator’s grandmother’s house when he was a child and now?
a. Once it was very large, but now it is small.
b. It used to be crowded, but now it is empty.
c. Once there was a lot of sound, but now it is silent.
d. It is small like the narrator’s house.


How does the narrator use comparison and contrast order to show this difference?

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