Read the following character introduction from a drama: In a simple, sparsely decorated apartment, ROSIE sits
alone, sewing. She rocks back and forth rhythmically,
giggling to herself softly. When the others enter, she drops
her sewing and stands in the corner. She remains there,
arms folded, looking down, while they begin to prepare
dinner cheerily.

Which assumption about Rosie is best supported by this excerpt?

A. She is upset with her mother for not allowing her to go to college.

B. She has a condition that that makes socializing difficult, and she
prefers being alone.

C. She is happy with her role as a seamstress but has never learned
to cook

D. She was not supposed to be in the apartment and is hoping not to
be noticed

Read the sentence. on days when i go jogging in the morning, my mind seems to process ideas faster, and my mood is more positive. how does the underlined clause add variety and meaning to the sentence? select two options. it describes the days being discussed. it makes readers want to go jogging. it creates a compound-complex sentence. it adds detail about the speaker’s personality. it explains why jogging is beneficial.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Whats the best lie you told and got away with?