14. Lines 218-239: What central piece of content does the author select for her

ending? Does Noda explain the meaning of the nursemaid? If so, how? How does

this folk song relate to Noda's mother?

Shauna wants to use facts from a government website in her speech. which element is she adding to her speech? a. background information b. narrative c. evidence d. commentary e. theme

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.