Read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. “it’s all electronic these days. key pads. thumbprint recognition.” “that’s so awesome.” “i like keys.” i thought for a minute, and then i got heavy, heavy boots. “well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business? ” “we’ll become specialized,” he said, “like a typewriter shop. we’re useful now, but soon we’ll be interesting.” “maybe you need a new business.” “i like this business.” how does the narration shape oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet