Read the sentence. Which revision best uses dialogue to improve the
I told them how surprised and excited I was to have my
sentence?
painting selected, especially since I'd felt so incompetent
at the beginning and knew the competition was SO
"Yup, it was a big surprise," I told them. "I'm excited
ruthless.
that my painting was selected! Especially since | felt
so incompetent at the beginning and the competition
was so ruthless."
"Honestly, I was surprised," I told them truthfully. "The
competition was ruthless, and I felt incompetent at the
beginning. It's really exciting to have my painting
selected!"
"I'm in! My painting is in! feel a fist pump and a little
dance coming on," I said, grinning. thought about
how I felt so incompetent at the beginning because of
the ruthless competition.
"Did you hear?" asked them. "My painting got
selected! Exciting, right?" I smiled. "Especially given
that I felt so incompetent at the beainning mk

What rhetorical device were the declaration's signers using when they said used strong, emotional words to describe the grievances against the king?

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.

What a literary critic determine a story's complex theme? oa. the public's reaction to the storyob. the number of characters in a storyoc. the order of events within the storyod. the specific details within the storysurmit