Reread the first section of the song. What do you think the song is celebrating? What is the “new day” the songwriter refers to in this section? Cite text evidence to support your inference

The pattern formed by the rhyme at the end of each line is called repetition allusion meter rhyme scheme

Constructed response paragraph: after reading “the case for short words,” do you think the author makes a convincing case that short words are effective? explain your answer and support it with evidence from the selection.

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?