Which passage would you use to give the feeling of a terrible blizzard?
answer options
1.
the wind blew the soft powdery snow into drifts that reached to the roof of the house. when the snow stopped coming down, we would dig out the doors and windows.
2.
the angry wind whipped the icy snow into drifts that covered the house. when would the howling stop? would we ever be able to dig out the doors and windows?
3.
the snow swirled idly into loose drifts around the house. the doors and windows became icy, and the snow would have to be cleared away.
4.
the snow piled up around the house, and the doors and windows had snow covering them too.

Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey

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.

Which statements describe the last two lines of a shakespearean sonnet? select three options.