Study the timeline of russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of animal farm.

they were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted.

unfortunately, the uproar awoke mr. jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard. he seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness. the pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly.

which historical event is this passage most reminiscent of?

a) bloody sunday
b) the bolshevik revolution
c) the rise of lenin
d) collectivization

Examine the imagery in these lines of the poem "the legend" by garrett hongo. he is asian, thai or vietnamese, and very skinny, dressed as one of the poor in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw, dingy and too large. he negotiates the slick of ice on the sidewalk by his car, opens the fairlane's back door, leans to place the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of footsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy—that's all he was— backs from the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. how does the imagery in these lines affect the reader’s experience of the poem? check all that apply. it creates a visual picture of the man. it conveys what the scene sounds like. it describes the actions of the boy. it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters. it encourages readers to care for the characters. it shows the resolution of a conflict. it explains the reasons for the event.