Martionettes Inc 1) Name the protagonist and antagonist of this story. 2) What is each man’s problem with his wife? 3) Is Marionettes, Inc. a lawful enterprise? 4) What is the double meaning of the company’s motto? 5) Who is most likely the “someone” at the end of the story? 6) Is Braling’s use of the marionette morally acceptable? Is Smith’s decision to buy a marionette morally acceptable? 7) Is it OK to keep Braling Two in the box in the basement? Why or why not? 8.) Write a thematic statement about Marionettes, remembering your thematic formula (Topic + author’s opinion on topic = theme, and remember topics are broad- liberty, justice, etc.) 9.) Compare your thematic statement to A Separate Peace.

How does the narration in this excerpt affect the storytelling? it shows rosa parks’s view of herself. it explains rosa parks’s motivation for staying seated. it shows the poet’s perspective of rosa parks. it provides a portrait of rosa parks with a lot of descriptive detail.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

What is the narrators main conflict in this passage