1. Read the lines from "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night." Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,

Till late in the night relived to the place at last again I made my way,

What does the use of the phrase "even-contested battle" suggest?

Both sides of the fight have agreed to fight fairly.

There is a clear winner of the battle.

The outcome of the battle is unknown.

Both sides of the fight are equally matched.

2.In "A March in the Ranks Hard-Priest, and the Road Unknown," readers can infer the speaker experiences feelings of helplessness as he surveils the scene inside the church.

Which lines from the poem support this inference?

"Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,"

"Resuming, marching, ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks, / The unknown road still marching."

Excerpt from the prophet kahlil gibran and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. in this line from the passage, what does the word course mean? a) a mode of action or behavior b) a part of a meal served as a unit c) a designated area of land or water d) a continuous layer of building material

What questions should readers ask about the exposition of a story?

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban. i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets. how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction. it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values. it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba. it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.