Read the dictionary entry. re • frain [ri-freyn] 1. (verb) to resist doing something 2. (noun) the chorus of a musical piece which sentence uses refrain as a noun? a) the flight attendant requested that the passengers refrain from smoking. b) students should refrain from using their cell phones during the lecture. c) experienced audience members refrain from clapping until the end. d) the haunting refrain stayed with the audience long after the show ended.

Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?

Since carmen was so hungry she stopped at the deli and brought a sandwich identify the dependent clause and circle the independent clause

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”