1. why do the first two sentences contain qualifiers ("oddly enough," "however")?
2. why does ellison suggest that his audience might be "fans of the animated cartoons"?
3. why does ellison think a book about bird-watching might be more edifying than a biography of parker?
4. why does ellison say "hung the bird on charlie" (para. 2) instead of "nicknamed him"?
5. what is the effect of ellison’s references to the story about the infant jesus (para. 3)?
6. why does ellison provide the mockingbird’s scientific name (mimus polyglottos) (para. 4)?
7. how does ellison manage to make this description of jazz sound so jazzy: "by long-continued successions of notes and phrases, by swoops, bleats, echoes, rapidly repeated bebops — i mean rebopped bebops — . ." (para. 4)?
8. what is the effect of the dashes in the phrase above?

“he did not want to look at the fish." what does this say about santiago's character? a. santiago feels badly that the fish died in vain. b. santiago feels sorry for himself because he's out too far. c. santiago feels sorry that he dragged the fish so far out to sea. d. he blames the fish for making him sail so far out to sea to hunt for him.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt from daly's sixteen