Click to read the passage from "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe. Then answer the question.
How would a reader most likely feel after reading this paragraph at the
beginning of a story?
A. Concerned for the narrator's safety, since he claims that someone
has committed a crime against him.
B. Confused, because the narrator sounds sane, despite claiming not
to be.
C. Intrigued by why the narrator is about to die.
D. Curious about why the narrator has admitted to lying.

The wife of bath was considered to be .. beautiful, of high moral standing or worldly

Read the excerpt from warriors don't cry. as we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. my mind could take in the sights and sounds only one by one: flashing cameras, voices shouting in my ears, men and women jostling each other, old people, young people, people running, uniformed police officers walking, men standing still, men and women waving their fists, and then the long line of uniformed soldiers carrying weapons just like in the war movies i had seen. which words create the mood in the excerpt? check all that apply.

Which pair of uses of figurative language from “the caged bird” support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression? back of the wind; floats downstream his wings are clipped; his feet are tied the caged bird sings; the free bird thinks dawn bright lawn; grave of dreams