Read the following sentences from "five hours to simla." then, miraculously, out of the pelt of yellow fur that was the dust growing across the great northern indian plain, a wavering grey line emerged. it might have been a cloud bank looming, but it was not—the sun blazed, the earth shrivelled, the heat burnt away every trace of spring's beneficence. yet the grey darkened, turned bluish, took on substance. which word best describes the mood created by these sentences? a. anxious b. enthralled c. relieved d. shocked

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Name five of the six points you should check, or have checked, when you are practicing your speech by recording it or with a f listening

Question 1 of 5 2 points in "how to eat an ice-cream cone," what does the author compare a melting ice cream cone to? o a. a hand grenade b. a runaway train o c. a machine gun o d. an atomic bomb submit