1. PART A: Which of the following best identifies the central idea of this article? A. Carver's inventions forced people to eat peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.
B. Carver was a creative problem solver who improved American farming.
C. Carver mainly wanted to help southern farmers make more money.
D. Carver was an artist who is best remembered for donating money to farmers.

2. PART B: Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "When he was young, Carver enjoyed art, but he couldn't afford paint. Instead,
he used blackberry juice." (Paragraph 1)
B. "He spent much of his life helping people by showing them better ways to farm."
(Paragraph 2)
C. "In the southern part of the United States, most farmers had grown cotton for so
many years that the soil had worn out." (Paragraph 3)
D. "He also found new ways to use soybeans and sweet potatoes." (Paragraph 4)

alright, so here, the author clearly thinks that flooding the canyon was a bad idea and is showing bias against it.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.