Read this paragraph from an informational text about earthquakes and tsunamis. Earthquakes can cause another type of natural disaster known as a tsunami. A tsunami is a series of enormous sea waves often caused by earthquakes that occur on the seafloor. The energy produced by an earthquake creates the force behind a tsunami. Tsunami waves can travel thousands of miles across the ocean. Which sentence tells what this paragraph is mostly about?A.“Earthquakes can cause another type of natural disaster known as a tsunami.”B.“A tsunami is a series of enormous sea waves often caused by earthquakes that occur on the seafloor.”C.“The energy produced by an earthquake creates the force behind a tsunami.”D.“Tsunami waves can travel thousands of miles across the ocean.”

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

One conclusion that a reader might draw from the excerpt from "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" is that the man with the umbrella is persistent in his mission. provide two details from the text to support this conclusion.

Look at the five words you selected to study during this lesson. use the second one in an original sentence. in a second sentence, explain how you have used or seen this word in your daily life. use proper grammar and spelling. note: you must write your own original sentence to receive points for this question. my word is flabbergast