Read the lines from Between Words.Love,The moon is between clouds,And we’re between wordsThat could deepenBut never arrive.Like this walk.We could goUnder trees and moons,With the stars tearingLike mouths in the night sky,And we’ll never arrive.That’s the point. To go Hand in hand, with the words A sparrow could bicker Over, a dog could make sense of Even behind a closed door, Is what it’s all about.A friend says, be happy.
Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel."And whatever he touched in that rich fortress of his soul sprang into golden life: as the years passed, the fruit trees—the peach, the plum, the cherry, the apple—grew great and bent beneath their clusters. His grape vines thickened into brawny ropes of brown and coiled down the high wire fences of his lot, and hung in a dense fabric, upon his trellises, roping his domain twice around. They climbed the porch end of the house and framed the upper windows in thick bowers. And the flowers grew in rioting glory in his yard—the velvet-leaved nasturtium, slashed with a hundred tawny dyes, the rose, the snowball, the redcupped tulip, and the lily.The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of
Read the lines from The Elements of San Joaquín. The wind strokesThe skulls and spines of cattleTo white dust, to nothing, Covers the spiked tracks of beetles,Of tumbleweed, of sparrowsThat pecked the ground for insects.
Which excerpt from Dispatches uses imagery to reflect the conflicting emotions that soldiers face during a war?
Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."“I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”“Good as anybody else,” said George.“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.How does the dialogue develop Hazel’s character?
Read the excerpt from Dispatches.Because, really, what a choice there was; what a prodigy of things to be afraid of! The moment that you understood this, really understood it, you lost your anxiety instantly. Anxiety was a luxury, a joke you had no room for once you knew the variety of deaths and mutilations the war offered.The purpose of the paradox in the excerpt is to
Read the poem.Nature's SymphonyHeartbeat of the forest, pulsing strongPrimal rhythm and ancient songLeaves and branches whisperMelody of a wild balletWaterfall thunders, rushCrashing waves, symphony of the seaCrickets chirp, owls hootNighttime chorus, nature's luteBirdsong soars, greeting dawnNature's rebirth, like Phoenix risingBees buzz, flowers bloomNature's rhythm, heartbeat of it allIn this excerpt, the poet uses repetition to reinforce the idea that
Which is a compound-complex sentence?
Read this excerpt from Diane Di Prima’s poem "Buddhist New Year Song."I could see the planet from which we had comeI could not remember (then) what our purpose wasbut remembered the name Mahakala, in the dawnin the dawn confronted Shiva, the cold lightrevealed the “mindborn” worldsThese allusions connect to the title of the poem by
Which condition is considered most dangerous by George and Hazel Bergeron in "Harrison Bergeron"?
Beat poets most likely use free verse
Which best describes the central conflict in “Ambush”?
What is atmosphere in literature?
Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.How is this excerpt an example of irony?
Which statement defines denotation?
Which of these best explains the paradox presented in the poem "Homework"?
Read this excerpt from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California."We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier. In this excerpt, the speaker of the poem and his imaginary companion are
Which pair of sentences from “Ambush” best reflects that a flashback, or a shift in time, has occurred?
Read the poem.Nature's SymphonyHeartbeat of the forest, pulsing strongPrimal rhythm and ancient songLeaves and branches whisperMelody of a wild balletWaterfall thunders, rushCrashing waves, symphony of the seaCrickets chirp, owls hootNighttime chorus, nature's luteBirdsong soars, greeting dawnNature's rebirth, like Phoenix risingBees buzz, flowers bloomNature's rhythm, heartbeat of it allHow does the allusion in this excerpt reinforce the meaning of the poem?
How does Thomas Wolfe organize the text "Look Homeward, Angel"?
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