HELP PLS Ode to Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close
bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eavesrun;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And
still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they
think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
by John Keats

Directions: Choose the best answer.
1. What makes this poem an ode?
a) It shows grief for something lost or d e a d.
b) It is a formal poem of praise for someone or something.
c) It tells the story of an actual historical event.
d) It has fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.

2. The excerpt above is only one stanza of the ode – the other stanzas probably contain:
a) praise for autumn’s plentiful harvest and weather
b) a description of a death that took place during the fall of the year.
c) three lines each with five, seven, and five syllables.
d) complaints about autumn rain and frost.

3. To what does the poet refer in the phrase “their clammy cells"?
a) the petals of a flower
b) the honey cells of a beehive
c) the prison cells in the local jail
d) the biological cells in a hazelnut

4. List five things that you would praise about your favorite season.

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.

What is a generalization? a. a series of events that make up what happens in a story b.hints or clues that tell you what is going to happen in a story c.the final resolution or event that ties up loose ends in a story d. a simple statement about something complicated

Read the passage from animal farm. "that was part of the arrangement! " cried squealer. "jones's shot only grazed him. i could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. the plot was for snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. and he very nearly succeeded—i will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic leader, comrade napoleon. do you not remember how, just at the moment when jones and his men had got inside the yard, snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? and do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that comrade napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'death to humanity! ' and sank his teeth in jones's leg? surely you remember that, comrades? " exclaimed squealer, frisking from side to side. now when squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. at any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle snowball had turned to flee. but boxer was still a little uneasy. how does the characterization of squealer support the author’s purpose? squealer's dramatic accusations draw parallels between him and stalin’s propagandists. squealer's uncertainty shows that he is not a reliable ally of napoleon and is ineffective with messaging. squealer's ability to get the animals to listen to him shows that any animal can rise to be a leader in time. squealer's humble interactions with the animals reflect the importance of equality and cooperation.