Write a summary of “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen (from Lesson 2.07, pages 8 – 11 in your textbook) OR “Here is New York” by E. B. White (from Lesson 2.08, pages 15 – 16 in your textbook). Your summary should be 1 – 2 paragraphs long (5 – 9 sentences per paragraph). Include the central idea and the main supporting ideas of the essay. Include significant details; omit unimportant details. Summarize the ideas and details in the order in which they appear in the essay. Make sure to include the title and author in your summary.

As you read in this lesson, satire depends on the audience recognizing and agreeing with the satirist’s implicit criticism of his or her target. how effective can satire be in shaping behavior or opinions if the audience is always in on the joke and thus never the target? your answer should be at least 250 words.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

Choose the answer. in the poem "i dwell in possibility," what is the motif? a. the house imagery b. the imagery of the outdoors c. the visitors d. the poetry