Which statement is an example of an inference you can make about "to build a fire," based on information from the text? a. the dog leaves the man to search for a warm fire. b. the dog survives the cold, while the man does not. c. the man dies because of his lack of imagination. d. the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Which sentence uses the past tense of to study correctly? a. mark is studying for his math test with margie. b. mark will study for his math test with margie. c. mark studied for his math test with margie.

Write a minimum 150-word response in which you explain how hughes uses poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and enjambment to reveal his theme in "theme for english b."