What effect do the forceful, rhythmic meter and repetition of phrases such as "half a league" and "cannon to the right" have in "the charge of the light brigade"? a. they inspire readers to compose poems about famous battles. b. they put readers in the middle of the action of battle. c. they express the narrator's grief over the soldiers' sacrifice. d. they stress the impossible odds that the soldiers faced.

Anagnos: . . it will no doubt be difficult for you there, annie. but it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an irish battle. for independence. (he studies annie, humorously; she does not open her eyes.) this is my last time to counsel you, annie, and you do lack some – by some i mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. to others. and what had saved you on more than one occasion here at perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. what do anagnos's words reveal about annie in this excerpt