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Which best describes the speaker of "London's Summer Morning"?
Read the excerpt from "London's Summer Morning."Now pastry dainties catch the eye minuteOf humming insects, while the limy snareWaits to enthrall them.What does this excerpt from the poem describe?
What is an affix?
Read the sentence.Eliana Rodriguez who teaches biology is my favorite teacher because she gives engaging lectures.Which is the best way to revise this sentence?
What is the best summary of the first paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"?
cent = "one hundred”sens = "feel”Which word is spelled correctly?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down."Now read “The Pasture,” also by Robert Frost. I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.I’m going out to fetch the little calfThat’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,It totters when she licks it with her tongue.I shan’t be gone long.—You come too. Which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems?
Read the excerpt from "How We Entered World War I."In the midst of it came the revelation of the telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann inviting Mexico into alliance as a belligerent. As a scheme to keep U.S. forces occupied on their own border, it offered to help Mexico regain her lost territories of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.The author most likely uses the word "scheme" to
Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Round and round and round—round and round and round—it makes me dizzy!I really have discovered something at last.Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.And she is all the time trying to climb through.Which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of Gilman’s time?
Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.Wilson’s word choice in the paragraph supports the idea that
What does the repetition of the word "neutral" throughout "How We Entered World War I" emphasize?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker most likely think about the wall?
Read the sentences. Fellow students, I know I will be a wonderful class president because I truly care about all of you, and I want this school to be the best place that it can possibly be. I am open and willing to listen, and do whatever I need to do to help all of you. In these sentences, the speaker is appealing to
Which sentence is written correctly?
Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech, “War Message to Congress.” I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only for the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.Which statement best describes the main idea of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "How We Entered World War I."Nothing that Wilson said about the danger to democracy could not have been said all along. For that cause we could have gone to war six months or a year or two years earlier, with incalculable effect on history. Except for the proof of hostility in the resumed submarine campaign and the Zimmermann telegram, our cause would have been as valid, but we would then have been fighting a preventive war—to prevent a victory by German militarism with its potential danger to our way of life—not a war of no choice. Instead, we waited for the overt acts of hostility which brought the war to us...The author's word choice gives the reader a sense that
Before Cambria entered the arena to watch the speech, she decided to turn her cell phone off. Cambria’s decision will help her
If tele means "far away" and gram means "something that is written," which is the best definition of the word telegram?
How does the author of "How We Entered World War I" organize the information in the text?
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