Read the excerpt from “The Monkey's Paw.”
But the days passed, and expectation gave place to resignation – the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled, apathy. Sometimes they hardly exchanged a word, for now they had nothing to talk about, and their days were long to weariness.

Which choice best helps show the mood in the excerpt?

the hope that Herbert will come home
the use of such words as “expectation” and “hardly exchanged”
the number of days that pass after Herbert’s death
the use of such words as “hopeless resignation” and “weariness”

What is one way to appeal to ethos?

Which character is mainly focused on in to kill a mockingbird?

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.