Read the two passages.
Which sentence best synthesizes ideas from both
passages?
Passage 1
There are many benefits to choosing to walk or ride a
bicycle. Cars put gases that are bad for the environment
into the atmosphere. These gases can add to global
warming and the greenhouse effect. They can also pollute
the air, making it harder for people to breathe.
Passage 2
choosing a bicycle for transportation is very beneficial.
Riding a bike strengthens the heart. It lowers blood
pressure and increases energy, Riding a bike also builds
muscle. Unlike sitting in a car, riding a bicycle gets your
body moving and can even improve your mood.
1.) Driving a car is bad for the environment and air.
2.) Riding a bicycle is one way to stay healthy and fit.
3.)Everyone should choose to ride a bicycle to work or
school.
4.) Riding a bicycle is good for the environment and your
health.

Discuss how hawthorne uses irony in "young goodman brown" to develop a theme or a character. your answer should be between 250 and 300 words.

"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

How is the word laud and welcome different