The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him, and he wept with
delight. He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. It looked like
diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble. The trees upon the bank
were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their arrangement, inhaled the fragrance of their blooms.
Which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt?

The option that best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt C) It emphasizes Farquhar's euphoric feelings about the rope breaking and his apparent survival.

The excerpt is one that tells about Farquhar's overwhelming sense of joy and gratitude at his supposed survival. The vivid imagery of the sand transformed into precious gems and the trees as towering garden plants reflects his heightened state of perception and elation.

So, His actions of weeping, digging his fingers into the sand, and throwing it over himself  is one that symbolize his immense relief and acceptance of his second chance at life.

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Read the excerpt from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him, and he wept with delight. He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble. The trees upon the bank were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their arrangement, inhaled the fragrance of their blooms.

Which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt?

A) It indicates that Farquhar is easily distracted and no longer concerned with his family.

B) It highlights Farquhar’s confusion about whether or not he is alive and experiencing reality.

C) It emphasizes Farquhar’s euphoric feelings about the rope breaking and his apparent survival.

D) It proves that Farquhar is experiencing a dream before that fact is revealed to the reader.

What specific purpose might James have had for creating the character of Walter Mitty

Hey I need help and i Can’t find the answers anywhere. If anyone has course hero can you please screenshot these “Betrayer or patriot chart” from Julius Caesar

Preparing an outline is a good method of organization. True False

TRUE/FALSE Crooks is angry when Candy comes in after Lennie.

Read this excerpt from "An Hour with Abuelo."

Besides, I hate the place, the old people's home, especially the way it smells like industrial-strength ammonia and other stuff I won't mention, since it turns my stomach.

How does this excerpt best develop the setting in the story?


A. It reveals that the nursing home has a hospital-like environment.


B. It demonstrates that the nursing home is cleaned regularly.


C. It proves that the nursing home is not a pleasant place for Abuelo to live.


D. It shows that most of the residents of the nursing home are ill.

Compare your plot description with that of the
model. Which of the following do both your
response and the model include? Check any of
the boxes that apply.
Elements of exposition
The role of characters in developing the plot
The role of setting in developing the plot
An analysis of relationships between events
Summarizing rather than retelling

Read the following passage:
Amid the many horrors of the Vietnam War, I found one of
the worst to be the waiting – those quiet times of inactivity
when anticipation of the next attack weighed on me like a
pile of bricks. I might be lying in the mud along a creek bed
somewhere, completely oblivious to the cold, the wet
earth, or the smell of gunpowder still fresh in my nostrils. It
was those times of waiting that showed me I had nothing
else in my mind - no past, no future, no ideas. Just a raw
awareness of the moment.
Which best explains how imagery contributes to the meaning of this
passage?
A. It helps readers understand the setting where the soldier waits for
the enemy to attack.
O
B. It reveals the soldier's reasons for fighting by describing the smell
of gunpowder.
O
C. It suggests the horrors of the war by comparing the soldier's
workload to a pile of bricks.
O
D. It helps readers understand the reasons for the soldier's anxious
feelings.

Why do the game makers consider foxface Peetas kill?

identify the following sentence as simple compound complex or compound-complex. South Africa is the southernmost country of Africa.
A. simple
B. compound
C. compound-complex
D complex ​

4. The artist painted a verdant landscape.
(a) The artist painted a green and fertile landscape.
(b) The artist painted a moonlit landscape.

Which of the following is not a quality of a productive discussion?A.Proposing a claimB.Mutual agreementC.Simple yes/no questionsD.Active listening

Read the excerpt from "The Red-Headed League."

Sherlock Holmes and I looked at the note. Then we looked at Mr. Wilson’s face, which looked sad and disappointed. Suddenly we both started to laugh.
PLEASE HELP 5 MINS REMAINS ON MY TEST!!!!
What is the best definition of the word disappointed?

bored
upset
eager
jealous

The boards cried beneath my feet in pain as i crept across the room. Hearing example:

Which three sentences contain supporting details that should be included in a summary of this informational text?

Route 66
adapted from the National Park Service

US Highway 66—popularly known as Route 66—holds a special place in American consciousness. Its name provides images of simpler times, small businesses, and the icons of a mobile nation on the road. Travelers on Highway 66 today can easily experience this past through the many motels, gas stations, cafés, trading posts, and roadbeds that remain along the highway.

Route 66 had its official beginnings in 1926, when the nation's first federal highway system was launched. The highway quickly became a popular route because of active promotion and advertisements. It was sold as "the shortest, best, and most scenic route from Chicago through St. Louis to Los Angeles."

Business owners in small and large towns along the highway looked to Route 66 as an opportunity for attracting new customers to their often rural and isolated communities. Even through tough times, the road helped promote economic opportunities by allowing people to travel to different places for work and by providing employment at the commercial centers along it.

In 2008, the significance of Route 66 and the importance of preserving it were again recognized when Route 66 was listed on the "Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites." The spirit of Route 66 lives in the people and their stories, the views and buildings, and travelers' perceptions of the highway.

Which phrase from this statement signals an opinion?
foolishly boasts
help end poverty
encourage marriage
improve the quality

Read this passage
Nicki dashed up the shore and into the forest, not stopping
to think. She could feel the footsteps behind her, the
nameless thugs whose loyalties could be bought and sold
like sacks of sugar. Those men were fast; she hoped she
was faster. For the first time since her journey began, a
sliver of doubt entered Nicki's mind. Why did she start all
this in the first place? The doubt would follow her as the
men continued to chase her around the island. They were
unrelenting hounds. She was their timid prey.
Which statement best describes why the men chasing Nicki are examples of
flat characters?
O
A. The men reveal that they are chasing Nicki because she stole
sugar from them.
O
B. The men simply keep chasing Nicki, and their motivations are not
revealed
O
C. The men are unsure if they are faster than Nicki.
O
D. The men are conflicted about whether they should continue to
chase Nicki.

What does the author most likely mean in line 18 when
he or she states that "love... paints a phoenix to her
eyes"? What is the figurative significance of this line?


The poem is Verses Written By A Young Lady on women born to be controlled

IL
How do the words pageantry, awake, and tingling
relate to the painting?
O They emphasize the painting's small depiction of
Icarus drowning.
O They describe the vibrant landscape depicted in the
painting.
* They suggest that the farmer and shepherd are
unware of Icarus.
O They reinforce the idea that Icarus's wings melted
in the sun.
I of Icarus,"
os Williams

Which statement best describes the relationship between changes in air pressure and wind speeds?

A.When a high- and a low-pressure air mass are far apart, air moves quickly from low to high pressure.

B.When a high- and a low-pressure air mass are close together, air moves slowly from high to low pressure.

C.When a high- and a low-pressure air mass are far apart, air moves slowly from high to low pressure.

D.When a high- and a low-pressure air mass are far apart, air moves quickly from high to low pressure.

Colonialism in the United States by Henry Cabot Lodge In the years which followed the close of the war, it seemed as if colonialism had been utterly extinguished: but, unfortunately, this was not the case. The multiplication of great fortunes, the growth of a class rich by inheritance, and the improvement in methods of travel and communication, all tended to carry large numbers of Americans to Europe. The luxurious fancies which were born of increased wealth, and the intellectual tastes which were developed by the advance of the higher education, and to which an old civilization offers peculiar advantages and attractions, combined to breed in many persons a love of foreign life and foreign manners. These tendencies and opportunities have revived the dying spirit of colonialism. We see it most strongly in the leisure class, which is gradually increasing in this country. During the miserable ascendancy of the Second Empire, a band of these persons formed what was known as the "American colony," in Paris. Perhaps they still exist; if so, their existence is now less flagrant and more decent. When they were notorious they presented the melancholy spectacle of Americans admiring and aping the manners, habits, and vices of another nation, when that nation was bent and corrupted by the cheap, meretricious, and rotten system of the third Napoleon. They furnished a very offensive example of peculiarly mean colonialism. This particular phase has departed, but the same sort of Americans are, unfortunately, still common in Europe. I do not mean, of course, those persons who go abroad to buy social consideration, nor the women who trade on their beauty or their wits to gain a brief and dishonoring notoriety. These last are merely adventurers and adventuresses, who are common to all nations. The people referred to here form that large class, comprising many excellent men and women, no doubt, who pass their lives in Europe, mourning over the inferiority of their own country, and who become thoroughly denationalized. They do not change into Frenchmen or Englishmen, but are simply disfigured and deformed Americans. We find the same wretched habit of thought in certain groups among the rich and idle people of our great eastern cities, especially in New York, because it is the metropolis. These groups are for the most part made up of young men who despise everything American and admire everything English. They talk and dress and walk and ride in certain ways, because they imagine that the English do these things after that fashion. They hold their own country in contempt, and lament the hard fate of their birth. They try to think that they form an aristocracy, and become at once ludicrous and despicable. The virtues which have made the upper classes in England what they are, and which take them into public affairs, into literature and politics, are forgotten, for Anglo-Americans imitate the vices or the follies of their models, and stop there. If all this were merely a fleeting fashion, an attack of Anglo-mania or of Gallo-mania, of which there have been instances enough everywhere, it would be of no consequence. But it is a recurrence of the old and deep-seated malady of colonialism. It is a lineal descendant of the old colonial family. The features are somewhat dim now, and the vitality is low, but there is no mistaking the hereditary traits. The people who thus despise their own land, and ape English manners, flatter themselves with being cosmopolitans, when in truth they are genuine colonists, petty and provincial to the last degree. 11 Select the correct answer. What is the central idea of the passage?

Read the passage.

Changes at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance created a demand for a more economical method of printing. The need for a fast and inexpensive way to produce written documents grew with the growth of literacy. Several new ways of creating written materials were developed. One important innovation was the creation of movable metal type.

Several print masters tried to perfect the use of movable metal type in order to produce books faster and on a larger scale. Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398-1468), was a German stonecutter and goldsmith. He was the first to develop a printing press that offered a solution for the demand of large quantities of written documents. In 1450, he formulated an alloy of lead, tin, and antinomy – a silvery, shiny grey metalloid found in nature – and created metal type out of it. Gutenberg's alloy melted at a low temperature. It cast well in the die and was durable in the printing press. This meant the separate pieces of type could be used again and again. Each letter was a mirror image that was carved in relief on a small block. These individual letters could be easily moved around to form words.



Which feature, when included with this paragraph, would best aid a reader's comprehension?

A. a map of Germany in Gutenberg's time

B. an artist's rendering of the Gutenberg printing press

C. a black and white photograph of a letter used in Gutenberg's printing press

D. the heading "Gutenberg" at the top of the paragraph

When Joanne began editing her narrative, she decided to move sentence 7. Where is the BEST place for Joanne to move sentence 7?

A) after sentence 4 because Joanne likes parade floats

B) after sentence 1 because Joanne is describing her entire trip

C) after sentence 8 because Joanne could not believe the precautions

D) after sentence 5 because working with fireworks is quite wonderful

Which of the following topics would one expect for a story that takes place in a crowded city? Select all that apply.

alienation
simplicity
industrialization
competitiveness
the power of nature

Finish this sentence, and then write an explanation. (3-4 sentences total)

One thing I wish my teachers understood about me is.....

Write two or three sentences explaining the two “contrary laws” that Pasteur sees at work in the world. Support your answer with textual evidence.

Based on the stage directions, which of the following best describes the setting of the play?

the sheriff’s farmhouse on a snowy day

a long-deserted plot of land in the country in early spring

an abandoned farmhouse on a cold day

a large house in the country on a winter evening

Lines 1132–1143: What sentence in Proctor’s speech states one of Miller’s central themes? Explain what the sentence means and how it relates to the theme.

Who are Alexandria and Stephanie

Though pollution is everywhere, there are ways to help prevent it. By walking or riding bikes—instead of driving cars—people can help decrease air pollution. People can also buy and eat organic foods to support farmers that do not use fertilizers on their crops. It is also a good idea to take old things that people intend to throw away and find new ways to use them. A great way to help the environment is to recycle. Save items like used paper, glass and plastic bottles, and metal cans. Then, take them to a recycling center where they can be turned into new products to be used again. Some cities and towns even have recycling programs in place so all you have to do is leave your recyclable items on the curb on a certain day each week. It doesn’t get much easier to help the environment and reduce pollution than that! In paragraph 5, what point is the author making when he talks about ways to prevent pollution? A) Simple changes can lead to big improvements for the environment. B) Reusing old items in new ways can actually harm the environment. C) One person’s efforts will have little impact on helping the environment. D) It is easier to reduce air pollution than it is to reduce water pollution.

What is one reason that people want to minimize costs? A. Costs are often bad things that people don't want to accept. B. Costs are calculated differently by everyone. C. Costs always involve spending money. D. Costs always have to be paid before a benefit arrives.