Can someone answer any or all of these questions?? Poem: The first snowfall by James Russell Lowell

1. List the rhyme scheme for the first two stanzas of the poem.

2. What example of personification do we witness in stanza two?

3. What four metaphors for snow do we observe in stanzas two and three?

4. What simile is evident in stanza four?

5. In stanza seven, “our first great sorrow” is a metaphor for what event?

6. Cite an example of alliteration from stanza eight.

7. Stanza eight describes a “slow healing process.” What simile does the poet use to help
the reader visualize this?

8. In the last stanza, what do we learn about the father as he kisses his little girl, Mabel?

In twelve years a slave, northup realizes he cannot trust anyone after his kidnapping except hamilton and brown god the physician the women who gave him drink

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Which type of writing is best illustrated in a venn diagram? chronological order fact and opinion comparison and contrast cause and effect