Read the passage from “the caged bird.”

but a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
[his shadow shouts] on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

read the passage from shakespeare’s “sonnet 29.”

when, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
i all alone beweep my outcast state,
and trouble deaf heaven with [my bootless cries],
and look upon myself and curse my fate,

in both poems, the connotation of the underlined language implies

despair.

disgust.

hatred.

sorrow.

Edgar allan poe uses many sound devices in his poem "the bells." which two words from the poem are examples of onomatopoeia?

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.

Something you may do if the weather's nice on sunday. -something you might not want to do this evening. -something you could go on aaturday evening. -something you could wear to a party. -somebody you might see in the next couple of days. -a subject you could study at college or university. -somewhere you might go on holiday .