What is President Obama's viewpoint in excerpt from "President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address"? State governors and mayors have unique agendas so they should work independently from the federal government.

The federal government should only take care of things that pertain to the entire country.

Homelessness and marriage equality are two issues that can only be handled by state legislatures.

All levels of government should work together to most effectively address America's problems and opportunities.

Asking questions from a text while reading with what?

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. what literacy device does the poet use in this poem?

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.