Read the poem "the death of autumn" by edna st. vincent millay. when reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, and feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes, stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak, blackens afar the half-forgotten creek,— then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes my heart. i know that beauty must ail and die, and will be born again,—but ah, to see beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky! oh, autumn! autumn! —what is the spring to me? what is the central idea of this poem? when the seasons change, animals migrate to new homes. when natural habitats are destroyed, plants and animals suffer. nature’s changes in autumn are a sad reminder of the cycle of life. nature’s colors in autumn are not as bright as they are in spring.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

Who might be the main characters in a world parents type of creation story? a. a turtle and a raven b. a higher power and a human c. the sky and the earth d. the spirits of humans

Read the excerpt from the “thing about terry” which best describes how th pacing of events heightens tension?