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Think about the author of the book **Elephants Under Pressure**: Think about the producer and writer of the video clip **Assignment America**:
 * 1) What was the subject? **Elephants** What was being compared? **Humans (Elephants are affected by becoming extinct because of humans)**
 * 2) What symbols did the author use? **The author used captions to explain pictures, bold print to identify a vocabulary word, definitions to explain vocabulary words, and different fonts to catch the eye.**
 * 3) What words stand out? Why? **The titles to the chapters stand out because they're bigger and in a different font than the rest of the words. Also, the captions to the pictures stand out because they're in a smaller font. Also, at the bottom of every other page there's a question which stands out because of the unusual font, Finally, the overall title of the book stands out because it's on a page alone and in the biggest font.**
 * 4) How do some words get you to look at characters or events in a particular way? **Different word may spark different ideas in your mind. Such as; big and enormous. when someone says big, your mind may portray something a good size. But, if someone says enormous, you might thing of something way bigger.**
 * 5) Are there any words that have more than one meaning? **Set, space, wealth, lead, banging, calves, raid.**
 * 6) Was the voice formal or informal? **Informal because he wasn't directly addressing somebody**
 * 7) Was the voice correct for the content? **Yes, because he wasn't directly addressing somebody**
 * 8) What is the most important sentence or word in the book? **The first sentence, "Throughout history elephants have performed many roles for humans."**
 * 1) What was the subject? What was being compared? **The subject was a friendship between a dog and an elephant. The personalities of the dog and elephant were being compared.**
 * 2) What symbols did they use? **They used the sound of an elephant making its natural noise to emphasize the point of the story.**
 * 3) What words stand out? Why? **The words that stood out were the adjectives because they are used to describe the nouns and the specific adjectives in this video stood out to me because they were used very well.**
 * 4) How do some words get you to look at characters or events in a particular way? **Some words got me to look at the elephant in a particular way. For example, when they were describing the elephant being sad I looked at the entire sorry with a more sympathetic view instead of the normal manner I had viewed it before.**
 * 5) Are there any words that have more than one meaning? **Yes, there were a few words.**
 * 6) Was the voice formal or informal? **Informal because it was telling a true story that wasn't addressing one person in a specific way.**
 * 7) Was the voice correct for the content? **Yes because it fit the story that the narrator was trying to tell.**
 * 8) What is the most important sentence or phrase in the video? **The most important phrase was, "Tara and Bella have been close for years."**
 * 9) How did reading **Elephants Under Pressure** give you a better understanding of the story in **Assignment America**? **R****eading the other book before watching this video increased my understanding while watching this video because I was more aware having already answered the same questions for the last book. I knew what I had to answer after the video was over, so I was listening more attentively.**