The rickety boards of the sidewalk rattled and vibrated with
the power of the locomotive that was barreling into the
station. people camped on the dirt streets of the town to
catch a glimpse of this new mode of transportation: the
steam engine. excitement filtered through the crowd as
they realized that the railway, starting on the east coast,
now stretched all the way across the country,
what is the setting of the passage?
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a. a town in the western united states during the 1800s
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b. a bustling city during modern times
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c. an isolated village during the 1500s
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d. an community in the eastern united states during the 2000s

Write a minimum 150-word response in which you explain how hughes uses poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and enjambment to reveal his theme in "theme for english b."

What happened after gandhi’s quit india speech?

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.