Read the excerpt from gerald r. ford's statement on signing the safe drinking water act.
this administration proposed a safe drinking water act, and several others were introduced by members of
congress. all of these bills had the same objectives: to increase protection of the public's health. many
compromises had to be made before this bill reached my desk. yet it is a strong bill, reflecting the combined
efforts of the congress and the administration.
use a dictionary or context clues to determine the best definition for compromises.
1. terminations
2. promises
3. payoffs
4. settlements of differences

"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

10. what is the purpose of the introduction in an essay? a. to establish the main idea of the essay. b. to focus on current statistics c. to explain the main idea to the reader d. to highlight the most important concepts

Select the sentence that has no punctuation or capitalization errors. a.this semester, i'm taking math, history, german, and english. b.this semester, i'm taking math, history german and, english. c.this semester, i'm taking math history, german and english. d.this semester, i'm taking math, history, german, and english.