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MRS. BRAND

(from her porch)

Steve? What was that?
STEVE

(raising his voice and looking toward porch)

Guess it was a meteor, honey. Came awful close, didn’t it?
—The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,
Rod Serling

Which three things do the stage directions help the reader understand?

what Mrs. Brand is saying
what Steve is doing
who Mrs. Brand is
whom Mrs. Brand is talking to
how Steve is speaking

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After reading the excerpt from "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," we can say that the stage directions help the reader understand the following:

B. What Steve is doing

D. Whom Mrs. Brand is talking to

E. How Steve is speaking

What are stage directions?

  • When an author writes a play or a script, she adds instructions in parentheses that show how actors should move, how their gestures or facial expressions should look like, how their tone of voice should be, etc. Those instructions are stage directions.

What do they show in the passage?

  • In the passage, the stage directions are:
  1. "From her porch"
  2. "Raising his voice and looking toward porch."
  • They show readers what Steve is doing and how he is speaking. For instance, we know that he raised his voice. They also show that Mrs. Brand and Steve are talking to each other.

With the information above in mind, we can choose letters B, D, and E as the correct options.

Learn more about stage directions here:

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