Read the following scene from trifles.

sheriff. nothing here but kitchen things.

(the county attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. he gets up on a chair and looks on a shelf. pulls his hand away, sticky.)

county attorney. here’s a nice mess.
(the women draw nearer.)

mrs. peters (to the other woman). oh, her fruit; it did freeze. (to the lawyer). she worried about that when it turned so cold. she said the fire’d go out and her jars would break.

sheriff. well, can you beat the women! held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.

what would be one advantage of reading this scene as opposed to watching or listening to it?
readers do not have to worry about visualizing the characters’ appearances.
readers can creatively interpret and visualize stage directions in their minds.
readers do not have to imagine the sounds that accompany characters’ actions.
readers can focus on the words, rather than the actions, of the characters.

Which evaluation category receives the highest rating? which evaluation category receives the lowest rating?

The dogs created when they pulled the christmas tree down and started eating the candy canes.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet