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Five dead leaves falling
upward onto the branches
of a bare oak tree

THE END OF WINTER
As I approached, I startled a group of sparrows that had been feeding in the grass, and they flew up to the safety of an old oak tree. It was still early enough in the year that the branches of the tree were bare. But the bird songs and the warm sun made me feel certain that winter was ending. As I watched, the sparrows dropped from their high perches and settled again in the grass to hunt for food. Like winter, I was just an interruption.

What part of the story does the poem focus on?

A.
The fact that it still looks like winter
B.
The ways you can see that spring is coming
C.
What the trees look like before they get their leaves
D.
What the sparrows look like flying up into the oak tree

Answer:

B.

Explanation:

Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

Answer choices for the above question

A. The author was inclined toward engineering before he had ever heard of windmills.

B. Energy and science books never appealed to the author before because he thought they had no bearing on his life.

C. The author is frustrated that he did not learn about windmills earlier when they were more commonly used to generate power.

D. Mrs. Sikelo was trying to prevent the boys from learning about the power of windmills.

Why did Shakespeare chose to begin the scene with Romeo talking before he learns of Juliet’s death? Explain what effect this has on the text

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What does Contradict mean

Which details support Alvarez’s ideas about the situation in her home country?

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When citing lines in a play, what is the correct order?
Act, Scene, Line(s)
Line(s), Scene, Act
s
Scene, Line(s) Act
Act. Line(s), Scene

When you convey a person's feelings through a shipwreck. What is the literary device used? Is it a motif? Does motifs convey feelings and are they similar to metaphors?

. In what ways do you think that today’s ""Christmas spirit"" may be different from the Christmas spirit of Dickens’s time? How has the tone of Christmas changed?

Many things that we use every day, like televisions, computers, refrigerators, and microwaves, require energy in order to work. We also rely on energy to make a car run and to heat water. All of the energy that we need to use must first be produced. Some sources of energy, such as gas and oil, can be harmful to the environment. Burning gas and oil can pollute the air. Also, gas and oil are limited, and we are using up the small amount that is left on the planet. This is why people should use alternative energy sources, which do not pollute the environment and are plentiful. Solar and wind energy are clean energy sources that should be used more often to reduce the pollution on Earth.

Which text structure does the author use to organize the passage?
A.
classification
B.
definition
C.
problem and solution
D.
sequence

2nd Reasoning for effects and Benefits for space exploration

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"Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?"

Read the sentence from "Initiation. " And from that time on, initiations didn't bother Millicent at all. Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization? Millicent was bold, brave, and no longer bothered by initiations. Upon reflection, Millicent realized that initiations didn’t really bother her. Thereafter, Millicent said yes to each initiation task without question. Millicent’s tense posture evaporated, and a smile curled on her lips.

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Which detail provides specific evidence to develop the author’s claim in the passage? excerpt from ""Shoes: Feet First!"" from A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles by Paula Grey.

1. What ___________ do you like? - I like biology, math and physics.
A. subject B. subjects C. favorite D. sports

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How is culture transmitted from one generation to another?
a.
through communication
b.
through heredity
c.
through genetics
d.
through occupations


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

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Which words BEST describe the speaker's attitude toward his current situation?
A) angry and vengeful
B) resigned and bitter
C confused but hopeful
D) passionate but realistic
Which one is it ?

Which excerpt from the 1879 Speech by Chief Joseph is the best example of pathos?

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the differences between the structure and form of the short story The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury and the poem The Drummer Boy that is based on the ballad by William Hays.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy
smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: It was a hobbit hole, and that moans
comfort.
It had a perfect round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The
door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and
floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was
fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all
the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on
another, No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had
whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same
passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows,
deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.
Read the passage above with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamillar words from the passage and what
strategies you used to understand them.
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Fill in the sentences.
1. Relief at being alive and __________________________at his captive plight brought a strange
medley of pious thank offerings. (p. 153 “The Interlopers”)

2. He looked across at the man who was fighting so grimly against pain and exhaustion…pain and
_______________________. (p. 154 “The Interlopers”)

3. He was peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and _______________
of the wind. (p. 152 “The Interlopers”)

4. For a space of time, both men were silent, turning over in their minds the wonderful changes that this dramatic _________________________ would bring. (p. 154 “The Interlopers”)

5. “A famous lawsuit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested the land from the illegal possession
of a neighboring family of petty landowners; the ___________________________ party had never
acquiesced in the judgment of the courts.” (p. 152 “The Interlopers”)

Abjure, Acumen, Chromosome, Feckless, Loquacious, Adverse, Discreet, Discrete, Peruse, Renown, Acquiesce, Languor, Pious, Retort, Succor, Skirling, Reconciliation, Exasperation, Plight, Dispossessed.

which shakespearean tragedy takes place in verona, italy?

Match the underlined root to the root's meaning.

Why must the people (the “we” mentioned) wear the mask?
A
The people wear the mask to protect their faces and themselves.
B
The people wear the mask because they are told to by the larger society.
C
The people wear the mask to keep their identities a secret.
D
The people wear the mask to hide their suffering
Poem:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, —
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

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in what way does a recent war influence the knight's actions?

1. On our … we were greeted by the head of the department. (ARRIVE)