Which statement describes the difference in tone between the first half and the second half of "poem"? a: the first half is philosophical; the second half portrays reality. b: the first half is optimistic; the second half is more ominous. c: the first half suggests indifference; the second half is more promising. d: the first half questions authority; the second half approves of commercialism. poem: i lived in the first century of world wars. most mornings i would be more or less insane, the newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, the news would pour out of various devices interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. i would call my friends on other devices; they would be more or less mad for similar reasons. slowly i would get to pen and paper, make my poems for others unseen and unborn. in the day i would be reminded of those men and women, brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. as the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened, we would try to imagine them, try to find each other, to construct peace, to make love, to reconcile waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other, ourselves with ourselves. we would try by any means to reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, to let go the means, to wake. i lived in the first century of these wars.

Which of the following would not appear on a term calendar? a. soccer practice c. 1st soccer gam b. soccer tryouts d. last soccer gam select the best answer from the choices provided

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"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification