Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
..Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece- all
gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it
fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round - more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took
me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me, but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal
regular and decent the widow was in all her ways, and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and
my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of
robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
Based on the title and the initial conflict with the Widow Douglas, you can infer that the theme of this passage is
A)
a travelogue about Mississippi
B)
the adventure of growing up
a conflict between religion and science
D)
the difficulties of being a man

What object do the men think of as a trifle?

"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

The cheerleading squad practiced their routine, they were still not ready to perform for an audience. choose the best transitional word or phrase to complete the sentence. a) however b) besides c) although d) therefore