2. Part A: Who is the most likely intended audience for this poem?
A. a close friend who already loves the speaker
B. a distant relative who has lost touch with the speaker
C. a former lover who has rejected the speaker
D.
a person to whom the speaker is confessing their love
3.
Part B: Which of the following best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "I feel it inside" (Line 18)
B. "I want, I want" (Line 21)
C. "But I can't open it" (Line 22)
D. "the bottom of it" (Line 27)

Writers can create sound effects in poetry by utilizing sound devices. a dictionary. mnemonic devices. capitalization.

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator