What is the central idea of the text When a new child comes Everything seems strange to him What, on the ground I have to lie? Eat black potatoes? No! Not I!

I’ve got to stay? It’s dirty here?

The floor- why look, it’s dirt, I fear! Am I supposed to sleep on it?

I’ll get all dirty!

Here the sound of shouting, cries, And oh, so many flies,

Everyone knows flies carry disease.

Oooh, something bit me! Wasn’t that a bedbug? Here in Terezin, life is hell

And when I’ll go home again, I can’t yet tell.

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

Which best compares the authors’ purposes in silent spring and “save the redwoods”? both authors want readers to protect human rights. both authors want readers to focus on saving trees. both authors intend to entertain readers with their essays. both authors intend to convince readers of their viewpoint.