"to my ex"
by stephanie harris

don't chew with your mouth open.
don't tell me we're as close
as sand and water on the beach.
now it's war: broken glass.
with gift after gift you set me up,
like ten pins in a game of bowling:
pin 1, a pager; pin 2, gold rings;
pin 3, a gold brooch for my mother;
pin 4, cds for my brothers; pin 5, expensive
dolls, paying for all my hair styles
and money any time i wanted it.
don't say you treated me like royalty.
i heard nothing but a cash register drawer.
our relationship, loneliness,
a ringing phone with no answer.

source: harris, stephanie. "to my ex." falling hard: 100 love poems by teenagers. ed. betsy franco. cambridge: candlewick press, 2008. print.

which word describes the tone of this poem best?

sentimental
bitter
nostalgic
optimistic

However, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. what would be the best way to revise this sentence for greater clarity? a) however, the fact that columbus left spain thousands of years after people settled what would become the united states never dawned on me. b) it never dawned on me, however, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain. c) however, the fact that people were already living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. d) however, the idea never dawned on me that long before columbus ever left spain, real-life people lived for thousands of years in what would become the united states.

Plz halp. which statements are true about theme? check all that apply. 1.) themes are observations about life. 2.) themes can be stated in a sentence. 3.) themes and topics are the same thing. 4.) themes are messages a text conveys about a topic. 5.) examples of themes include loyalty, corruption, and greed. 6.)themes are rarely stated directly and need to be inferred by the reader.

The book the lord of the rings by j r r tolkien, in which the main character must go on a journey to destroys magic ring, is an expample of which plot archetype