Which best defines the term muckraker?
a. a journalist who writes about unfair monopolies
b. a factory employee who oils machinery
c. a sanitation worker who cleans city streets
d. a corrupt politician who embezzles public funds

Excerpted from "the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! look carefully at the lines above. a poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read a. line by line. b. with long pauses. c. phrase by phrase. d. with a strong rhythm.