Draw Conclusions Identify the similes and metaphors in lines 107-122. Think about what Dillard is describing in this paragraph. What function does this figurative
language fulfill?
"I missed my chance. I should have gone for the throat. I should have lunged for that streak of white under the
weasel's chin and held on, held on through mud and into the wild rose, held on for a dearer life. We could live
under the wild rose as weasels, mute and uncomprehending. I could very calmly go wild. I could live two days
in the den, curled, leaning on mouse fur, sniffing bird bones, blinking, licking, breathing musk, my hair tangled
in the roots of grasses. Down is a good place to go, where the mind is single. Down is out, out of your ever-
loving mind and back to your careless senses. I remember muteness as a prolonged and giddy fast, where
every moment is a feast of utterance received. Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, and ingested
directly, like blood pulsed into my gut through a jugular vein. Could two live that way? Could two live under
the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other,
and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

for me i cant do homework without music, so, i guess i would say faster with it, than without it. for me at least.