Read the excerpt from "Why the Sun Is Brighter Than the Moon." When they were very young, Buwan pushed Araw into a fast-flowing stream. "Sister, my sister, I'm losing my grip! Grab my hand!" cried Araw, her small hands clinging onto the slippery banks. "No, sister, I won't," replied Buwan, "for you will pull me in too!" Another time, Araw caught a cicada and put it in a cage she'd made out of bark. Buwan grabbed the cage and shook it. "Sister, my sister," cried Araw, "please be careful, because that is a present for our father." The details in the excerpt show readers that Buwan appreciates Araw's generosity. loses respect for Araw's intelligence. has little regard for her sister's well-being. may be unaware of her sister's treachery.

Read this description of a detail from the movie i am legend. a scientist is the last man alive in a post-apocalyptic new york, where zombies have taken over and destroyed most of the population. about ten minutes into the film, the man thinks back to how the zombie creatures came to be, and how at one point he had a wife and child. which type of suspense technique did the screenwriter use? dramatic irony flashback foreshadowing special effects

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

You often figure out what a word means by looking at the surrounding ideas, and this is also known as: using peripheral vision using common concepts using context clues using a dictionary