Read the excerpt from silent spring
which words and phrases from the excerpt best support
the author's purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the
environment? check all that apply.
yet every one of these disasters has actually happened
somewhere, and many real communities have already
suffered a substantial number of them. a grim specter has
crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy
may easily become a stark reality we all shall know
these disasters
actually
happened
grim specter
almost unnoticed
tragedy
stark reality

One element of lyric poetry is personal reflection. which lines in this poem most clearly illustrate that element? i wandered lonely as a cloudby william wordsworthi wandered lonely as a cloudthat floats on high o'er vales and hills,when all at once i saw a crowd,a host, of golden daffodils; beside the lake, beneath the trees,fluttering and dancing in the breeze.continuous as the stars that shineand twinkle on the milky way.they stretched in never-ending linealong the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw i at a glance,tossing their heads in sprightly dance.the waves beside them danced; but theyout-did the sparkling waves in glee: a poet could not but be gay.in such a jocund company: i gazed and gazed—but little thoughtwhat wealth the show to me had brought: for oft, when on my couch i liein vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eyewhich is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills,and dances with the daffodils.