Read this excerpt from anne frank remembered.

determined not to let my knees tremble, i forced myself up the steps to the room where i had been directed. i knocked on the door. no one answered, so i opened it.

as the door swung open, i saw a round table filled with high-ranking nazis. their caps were on the table, and in the middle of the table was a radio. the radio was playing an english broadcast. right away, i recognized the bbc.

all their eyes burned into me. i realized that i had accidentally witnessed them committing a crime of treason, for which the penalty was death. i knew they would do with me what they would, so i had nothing more to lose. "who is in charge? " i asked.

why is this excerpt suspenseful?

the radio is broadcasting war news.
miep is committing a crime.
the nazis recognize miep.
the outcome is uncertain.

In at least 150 words, describe the tone of patrick henry’s virginia convention speech, including the rhetorical devices he uses to achieve this. use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Expand the outline you wrote in lesson 1 about the american dream into an argumentative research essay. as in most essays, you'll need to include an introduction, body, and conclusion. you'll also need to support your claim with evidence

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.