Read the excerpt from "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death."I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before.Read the excerpt from "Do not go gentle into that good night."Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Read the passage from President Barack Obama's back-to-school remarks.Maybe you could be a good writer—maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper—but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor—maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine—but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class.
Which types of punctuation can be used to set off a nonrestrictive element in a sentence? Select 3 options.commasdasheshyphensparenthesesquotation marks
Which are features of lyric poetry? Choose three answers.a full storylinea musical qualityexpression of feelingslong lengththoughts about an event
For what reasons do poets use parallelism? Check all that apply.to create vivid imageryto draw attention to certain words and ideasto create rhythmto restate the same idea using different grammatical structuresto create emotional effects
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Which statement best describes how the topic of death is treated differently in "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "Do not go gentle into that good night"?
Read the lines from "Song VII" by Rabindranath Tagore.Ornaments would mar our union;they would come between thee and me;
Speech directed toward someone who is absent or toward a thing that is personified is called
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Read the lines from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.Let none go back home, brothers, this morning, let none go to work.Let us take the blue sky by storm and plunder space as we run.Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood.Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs.
Read the sentence.The poster includes bright, pretty colors to catch the viewer’s attention and evoke a sense of joy.
A metaphor makes a comparison
Which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? Select 3 options.Over a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.The recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.We planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.I will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.We had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.
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Niko is analyzing a cereal advertisement that suggests a rival cereal brand uses artificial ingredients and an excess amount of sugar. What persuasive technique is being used?
Read the passage from "To Autumn.”Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
Read the passage from "To Autumn."Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core
Read the passage from "To Autumn."Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run
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