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read the excerpt from chapter 6 of lizzie bright and the buckminster boy.
"is that you up there, laughing like a loon? "
lizzie. lizzie bright.
he put his head out the window. "what are you doing here? " he called down.
"well, i've missed you, too. i'm stealing chickens."
"we don't have any chickens."
"your dog, then."
"we don't have a dog."
"i figured you didn't have a dog—or he was deaf as a post. what does a minister have to steal? "
"books. preaching books."
she paused. "i guess you can keep those. i'll try somewhere else."
in this excerpt, a reader can conclude that lizzie is playful based primarily on her
a)words.
b)actions.
c)feelings.
d)thoughts.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

What does the morality play everyman say about fate and free will? develop a short response using examples from the text to support your answer.

Read this passage from an analysis essay: allegories do three things. first, they tell a story. allegories also have multiple meanings. finally, allegories offer a moral lesson. which best uses parallelism to revise this passage? a. telling a story, having multiple meanings, and moral lessons: these are the things allegories do. b. allegories, tell a story, multiple meanings, and a moral lesson. c. allegories tell a story, have multiple meanings, and offer a moral lesson. d. allegories tell a story, and have multiple meanings and offer a moral lesson.2b2t