Read the excerpt below and answer the question. "The proverbial rats had abandoned the ship
But I had no intention of abandoning
The garden of my childhood."
The word that best describes the tone in the above passage from the poem is .
a) defiant
b) formal
c) playful
d) happy

In "there will come soft rains," why does the author turn the house into a mechanical creature? a. to stress how well run the future will be b. to keep readers from realizing at the start that no humans are present c. to stress how scientific advances can create the perfect society d. to compare the present with the earlier, non-mechanical times

Wealth is greater than health prove

2. page 1: schlosser describes "just another gorgeous rocky mountain vista. and yet cheyenne mountain is hardly pristine." why do you think schlosser describes the beautiful cheyenne mountain scene in detail before describing the military installation that lies inside?