Read the passage:

i find them in the garden,
for there's many here about;
and often when i go to plough,
the ploughshare turns them out!
for many thousand men," said he,
"were slain in that great victory.

what is the tone in the passage?

a. bleak
b. matter-of-fact
c. bitter
d. sincere

Explain how lines 1-3 establish the speaker as an individual but also as a representative for all others.

The first step in making a mental model for a compare-and-contrast text is a. comparing the two things being described. b. finding important details in the text. c. contrasting the two things being described. d. connecting details to what is already known.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.