Excerpt from America's Great Outdoors Initiative
Donn Saylor
1 Pollution levels are increasing. Threats to nature are rising. It has never been more important to protect America's natural
beauty. At the same time, the country keeps growing. More people means a need for more goods and services. If not sensibly
made, these goods and services can cause lasting problems in nature. Large companies and big businesses often think only
about customers' wants. They pay less attention to the long-term problems that the natural world could face as they try to
quickly meet those wants.
How do the author's word choices in section one reflect the author's perspective?
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The author's word choices in section one create an optimistic, energetic
tone to introduce his topic.
The author's word choices in section one emphasize that he believes his
topic is serious and necessary
The author's word choices in section one suggest that he believes he has
identified the only solution to a serious issue.
The author's word choices in section one focus readers' attention on a
solution that will be logical and easy to implement.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Thomas carefully ran on the dry, hard ground barefoot and then jumped quickly into the cold pool?

Read the passage. which statement would be the best summary to give the argument meaningful context? a. the passage is fine the way it is. b.th word "debate" should be removed, because it indicates disagreement. c. the word "claim" should be removed because this is not the claim. d. the sentence that begins " i personally believe" should be removed because it shows bias.