Answer the following question focusing on the article "Hunting the Monster"
What is the author's primary purpose in writing the article?
To provide the face and the fiction behind the famous tales of fantastical creatures.
To prove that Hatfield and Jenkins were part of a hoax.
To persuade us to join Bigfoot mania.
To explain who Bigfoot really is.

Which of the following best describes the setting of "marigolds"?

Which of the following describes the structure of this excerpt best? a. free verse b. sonnet c. ballad d. blank verse

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme