Read the excerpt. then, answer the question(s).

helen, thy beauty is to me
like those nicean barks of yore,
that gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
that weary, way-worn wanderer bore
to his own native shore.

on desperate seas long wont to roam,
thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
thy naiad airs have brought me home
to the beauty of fair greece,
and the grandeur of old rome.

--from "to helen" by edgar allan poe

which word signals the use of a simile in the excerpt?
a. like
b. that
c. as
d. to

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

Create a purpose statement based on the graphic organizer in "section ii: finding the main point."