1. Why does the poet choose to use the word "barker" instead of dog? A. The poet is not skillful with language. B. To suggest that the narrator is a child. C. The poet is trying to suggest an animal other than a dog. D. To suggest that the narrator is not human.

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)

Why is figure of speech important in reading and writing?

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.