16.
which line from the poem “wave” best develops its tone?
wave
my child (line 1)
born to me by water (line 2)
and by water (line 3)
swept away. (line 4)
(1 point)
• line one
• line two
• line four
• line three

ms. kemp recruits volunteers
as a new ninth grader at my high school, i was sitting in an assembly about volunteerism. the guest speaker was ms. francis kemp. today i had an experience worth writing about. i must admit that i did not have high hopes for the hour. i was sure it was going to be a boring talk given by a boring speaker. she would probably go on and on about picking up trash along the road and other jobs that do not really appeal to many kids. i could not have been more wrong.
to my surprise, ms. kemp was a lively, funny person who kept the audience interested. she opened with a joke about one volunteer who tries to outdo another. i won’t even try to retell the joke because i could never do it justice. so much of the impact depended on her timing and delivery. the point is that she is very self-aware. she knows that some students take a cynical attitude toward doing volunteer work. she was able to poke fun at herself and yet come off seeming wise and clever at the same time.
the hour flew by. she told one anecdote after another. cleverly, she alternated between stories that were funny and those that were touching and moving. overall, she was bright, amusing, knowledgeable, and had the desired effect. i cannot honestly say that i ran out to volunteer for a community service project right away, but i am thinking seriously about doing so.
use the passage to answer the question.
17.
what was the author’s main purpose for writing this passage?
(1 point)
• to convince students to do volunteer work
• to tell a funny story about something that occurred in school
• to describe the characteristics of an impressive person
• to explain how students can be useful to their communities

What to the slave is the fourth of july? by frederick douglass fellow-citizens—pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here to-day? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings, resulting from your independence to us? but, such is not the state of the case. i say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. i am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. the blessings in which you this day rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. the sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. this fourth of july is yours, not mine. you may rejoice, i must mourn. to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, i hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. if i do forget, if i do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! " to forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before god and the world. my subject, then, fellow-citizens, is american slavery. i shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. standing there, identified with the american bondman, making his wrongs mine, i do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this fourth of july. whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. what is one of the lessons douglass impresses on his listeners? a) the nation should not rejoice until everyone has freedom. b) he must speak on the fourth of july in order to bring change. c) for him to join the celebration would be treason. d) he can see the perspective of slaves and citizens with equal clarity.

4. interpret how do the speaker's descriptions of and feelings about the wind change as the poem progresses? how does this shift show a change in the tone of the poem?

One way to show a character is a) to use dialogue b) use dynamic sentences c) interview friends d) share details