Musicians wrestle everywhere:
all day, among the crowded air,
i hear the silver strife;
and—waking long before the dawn—
such transport breaks upon the town5
i think it that “new life! "

it is not bird, it has no nest;
nor band, in brass and scarlet dressed,
nor tambourine, nor man;
it is not hymn from pulpit read,10
the morning stars the treble led
on time’s first afternoon!

some say it is the spheres at play!
some say that bright majority
of vanished dames and men! 15
some think it service in the place
where we, with late, celestial face,
god, shall ascertain!

read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
6)
which stylistic device is used in line 1?
a) allusion
b) symbolism
c) inversion
d) hyperbole

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

Which line from “a simple way to create suspense” best supports the central idea that writers should not give their readers answers too quickly? a. the reader learns to chase, and the momentum becomes unstoppable. b. so writers are taught to focus on ingredients and their combination. c. we had to invent a solution to the serious problem it posed. d. thus the principle works in a micro sense, as well as in a macro one.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.