Which is the best description of the author’s diction in the passage?

Answer:

The author repeats words with positive connotations to help emphasize her point.

Caught by a Tree
from Chatterbox 1906

A natural history student was one afternoon, during a prolonged drought, hunting for ferns in a dense wood. Towards evening, it grew suddenly dark, and a few drops of rain gave warning that a storm was coming. At that moment, the student's eye fell upon a big, hollow tree-trunk on the ground.
Striking a match, the man peered within, and saw, as he thought, a convenient place of shelter. With feet foremost and arms pressed closely to his side, he wormed himself into the log.
Presently the rain came down in torrents, and the student congratulated himself on having found so snug a shelter.
Fatigued with his long tramp, he fell asleep. How long he slept he did not know, but by-and-by he was awakened by a sharp pain in his head, and a feeling of cramp in his whole body. The rain was still falling, the darkness was intense. The bodily discomfort was, of course, due to the man's cramped position; the pain in his head was caused by a continual drip of water from above on to his forehead.
He drew his head back out of the way of the drops, and, in spite of his uncomfortable position, actually fell asleep again! But the next time he awoke, the pain in his head was intolerable. It seemed impossible to get out of reach of those maddening drops, and "wherever they fell," says the student, "they seemed like a sharp iron boring into the skull."
But the worst was yet to come. When the poor fellow tried to crawl out of the log, he was unable to do so! The opening by which he had so foolishly entered had been only just large enough to admit his body, and the wood, shrunken by the long drought, had in the rain swelled to such an extent that he was now caught, as he says, "like a rat in a trap."
Throughout the night the wretched victim shrieked, struggled, pushed, kicked, and wriggled in vain. He could not raise his hands to tear at the wood.
Happily, he was discovered the next morning through the good services of a rescue dog, which led a search-party to the spot.

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Select all the correct answers.
In what two ways does the setting influence the plot of the story?
The setting adds an element of danger and suspense.
The setting adds to the urgency of the search-party that is looking for the lost student.
The setting creates the events that allow the dog to find the student trapped in the tree trunk.
The setting creates the circumstances that lead to the student taking shelter in the tree trunk.
The setting reveals the many hardships in the life of the student.

the 10 characteristics of a Horror Story.

match each motif to the meaning it develops in the play.

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Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."

A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen—upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up.

This excerpt is an example of satire because it humorously
exposes the incompetence that this society views as normal.
portrays Harrison Bergeron as being more dangerous than he really is.
exaggerates the effects of George Bergeron’s handicaps.
illustrates how television and other media control society.

Name a movie, book, or TV show you're familiar with. Next, identify a theme that is explored in that work and tell how that theme was communicated.

A strong thesis needs to...
A. have at least one item of evidence to support it.
B. include some of the wording from the prompt
C. include a direct quotation from the prompt
D. Have multiple items of evidence to support it

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Read each sentence from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears. Choose the text structure that the sentence reflects.
"First, Giuseppe immigrated in 1903 to study art. Then his brother Salvatore followed."
be
"If illness was suspected, immigrants were detained at Ellis Island's hospital complex."
"The two families were alike in that they both came from small towns in Italy."

Based on what you have read, choose each response below that correctly describes the impact of the

Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights upon the colonies.

The colonies gained their independence from England.

The Dominion of New England was overthrown.

Colonists no longer had a king and queen

Colonists were shown that an unjust king could be overthrown.

The idea that citizens have rights that government cannot take away gained more support.

DONE

Which sentence from part 1 of The Call of the Wild best supports the theme "It is important to pick your battles"?
Thirty or forty huskies ran to the spot and surrounded the combatants in an intent and silent circle,
Though his dignity was sorely hurt by thus being made a draught animal, he was too wise to rebel,
Francois was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience...
Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck's hind quarters whenever he was in error

How do or don’t the current hero’s and leaders of today reflect our society’s values and needs ?

simile
metaphor
hyperbole
idiom
onomatopoeia

The riverbeds were dry as a bone this spring.​

Dear companion of our youth when we were immortal 1
and our happy shouts swung up through the gumtrees,
when we raced go-carts in order to destroy our knees,
when there were always eight of us at home for tea
and eight of us learning to count and read 5
and eight of us crammed into the Fiat for Mass
and eight of us slashing through the long dry grass
and four of you dive-bombing four of us
and all of us playing ‘Red rover, red rover, come over!’

PLZ HELP ME
The following passage appears in an online article. Paraphrase the information for your research report about DNA
Scientists believe some day farmers will grow plants with black leaves. These leaves would be able to change sunlight into energy. F. Dyson, a genetics expert,
claims. "This would help reduce poverty in rural parts of the world because farmers could grow black plants and sell them at a healthy profit. He also sees a day
when termites will eat rusty metal and trees will produce liquid fuel "The secret lies in DNA says Dyson

what is the topic of this essay?

How does setting in the excerpt affect the narrator?
O The city makes her dislike her rural home.
O The city makes her appreciate her rural home.
O The city makes her ignore her rural home.
O The city makes her want to improve her rural home.

If the author changed the word dreadful to long in this sentence, how would the tone be altered?

Hundreds, after a dreadful fight for air, became unconscious and died where they lay.

A. The author's tone would be more difficult to identify.

B. The author's tone would become one of horror and disgust.

C. The author's tone would be less sympathetic, more detached.

DIRECTIONS: Read the selection, and answer the following questions.

The Tropics in New York
Claude McKay

Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,
Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,°
And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,

5 Set in the window, bringing memories
Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills,
And dewy dawns, and mystical blue skies
In benediction° over nun-like hills.

My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze;
10 A wave of longing through my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.


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2. alligator pears: avocados, tropical fruits. All the foods mentioned in this stanza grow in Jamaica, the Caribbean island where the poet was born.
6. rills: streams; brooks.
8. benediction: blessing.


The title of the poem, “The Tropics in New York,” is ironic because —
a.
it is a very unusual title for a poem
b.
sometimes it gets extremely hot in New York
c.
we don’t expect to find the tropics in New York
d.
the weather is a lot nicer in the tropics

he following sentence has a misplaced modifier.

The group members met on Saturday working on the project together.

Which revision corrects the error in the sentence?

The group members who were working on the project together met on Saturday.
Working on the project together on Saturday, the group members met.
On Saturday, the group members who were working on the project met together.
The group members met working on the project together on Saturday.

Which excerpts from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change provide insight into changing social values of the time? Check
all that apply.
"The bicycle," she wrote, "will inspire women with more courage, self-respect and self-reliance and make the next
generation more vigorous of mind and of body."
In August 1895, a cyclist named Ann Strong caused a stir when she compared the value of a bicycle to that of a
husband in the Minneapolis Tribune.
Politicians, soldiers, business leaders, and even the leading athletes in the new sports of baseball and football
were all men.
Now the bicycle brought a taste of independence to women on a very personal level, and some of them took the
opportunity to express their discontent with old traditions and expectations.
Bicycle manufacturers retooled their factories to build them (automobiles and bicycle repair shops installed
gasoline tanks to service them.
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How does the POV help show the relationship between Ponyboy and Darry? What does the reader understand that Ponyboy does not?
In ch. 2, Ponyboy and Cherry are in line for popcorn, what perspective is Hinton trying to show when she writes, “you don’t see a kid grease and a Socy cheerleader together often”?
3. “Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn’t get worse. I was wrong.” Chapter 3 ends with this

Which TWO reasons support the answer about the correct purpose?

Type a paragraph of what you see has happened to the price of milk over the last year. Why was it so low in April?

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Why do the nuns "congratulate“ the girls on learning to ride bicycles? *

Pls help if u read the story st Lucy txt

Was Mawi's father was a good dancer? In of beetles and angles
True
False

Why does Beatrice call Eddie an "angel" on page 9? Why does Eddie tell the Vinny Bolzano story on page 16? What is he trying to explain?

5. How does the author create a unifying thread that supports his message

throughout the article?

A. The author includes several specific examples of musicians who overcame odds.

B. The author tells the stories of musicians who used self-confidence to become

successful

C. The author uses an illustration to symbolize the two paths available to any young

person

D. The author references the poem "The Road Not Taken" throughout the text, relating

it to the individuals' stories.

What is success?
I need help with that Ik it’s a simple but I need a good answer. Thanks.

central idea of Passage 2: Excerpt from School Bus Ads Bring Needed Revenue to Area Districts

Which answer choice is the best revision of the nonstandard sentence shown
below?
We coulda, I dunno, gone to
the store before we got home.

A. I dunno, we could've gone to the store.
We could of, I don't know, gone to the store before we got home.
We could have gone to the store before we got home.
I don't know, we could of gone to the store before we got home.