Read this excerpt from exploring the titanic.

soon i had spent more hours in the deep ocean than any other scientist. but the titanic continued to haunt me. my oceanographic colleagues scoffed at my titanic dreams and told me i should devote myself to "real" scientific projects.

colleagues are

subjects in a science experiment.
friends who have different interests.
fellow workers in the same field of study.
family members who support each other.

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.

Which describes the effect the use of figurative language has on the tone of this excerpt? select all that apply

Match each stanza structure to the correct term. a stanza of two lines quatrain a stanza of four lines octave a stanza of six lines couplet a stanza of eight lines sestet arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth