5. Read the passages and then respond to the two prompts that follow. Passage 1
It's a real shame that we don't care about the youth of this town. But there's something we can do
about it Stop wasting money on pay increases for our politicians and put that money toward the
crumbling youth center instead.
Passage 2
Nothing happens in any town without strong leadership. And once you've found it, you've often go
pay to keep it. But some people would rather waste our budget on hopeless causes like the crumb
youth center instead of giving pay increases to our proven leaders.
a. Circle the author's purpose that is shared by both passages.
To inform
To persuade
To entertain
b. In two or three sentences, compare and contrast the viewpoints in the two passages.

Which statements are universal themes associated with this topic? select three options. when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent. the path from innocence to experience can be long and difficult. one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication. the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes. protecting the innocence of others prevents them from taking risks in their lives.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

In which sentence does the underlined adverb modify a verb? (i’ll put the words that are underlined in caps) a. water young plants often. b. water young plants rather often. c. we generally water young plants often. d. water very young plants often.