"i had been kneeling on the island grass when the unrecognizable flap on frog skin settled on the creek bottom swaying i stood up and brushed the knees of my pants i couldn't catch my " ( --which best identifies a phrase used to establish tone and explains its effect-- ) a.)i had been kneeling on the island grass; it establishes a calm, collected atmosphere b.)when the unrecognizable flap of the frog skin settled; it demonstrates the authors dislike of nature. c.) on the creek bottom, swaying; it shows the authors growing appreciation of the natural world. d.) i couldn't catch my ; it illustrates the authors shock and surprise at the event

Is the sentence the refree blew her whistle and both teams rushed onto the field a coumpound or simple sentence

Iwas conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths." what is meant by the term resolved as it is used in this sentence? a) determined b) questioning c) uneasy d) unsure

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning