Identify the stage directions in this excerpt from susan glaspell's trifles.

mrs hale: i'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising. (she arranges the pans under sink which the lawyer had shoved out of place.)
mrs peters: of course it's no more than their duty.
mrs hale: duty's all right, but i guess that deputy sheriff that came out to make the fire might have got a little of this on. (gives the roller towel a pull) wish i'd thought of that sooner. seems mean to talk about her for not having things slicked up when she had to come away in such a hurry.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

Read this excerpt from edgar allen poe the masque of the red death and answer the question that follows.what kind of writing does the excerpt represent? here the case was very diffierent,as might have been expected from the dukes love

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky