The afternoon heat lifts from the asphalt parking lot outside a large football stadium, where yellow school buses line up for the uniformed band members from high schools in the area to dismount. What is the most effective way to revise sentence 1?

A
Change dismount to disconnect

B
Change dismount to disembark

C
Change dismount to disengage

D
Change dismount to disappear

The gift of the magi analyze the various characters in the story. list which character types—dynamic, round, static, and flat—you observed in the story. cite evidence to support your response.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?