Read the following passage from Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question. After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock …

Identify and explain the tone of this passage. What specific words contribute to the tone? Then, explain how the tone of the passage would change if the words "burdensome labor" replaced the words "glorious freedom." Be sure to identify the new tone and explain how the changed words create that tone. Your response should be a paragraph of 3–5 sentences.

Have you ever felt like the person in this image during a speech or presentation? list four or five things this person can do to be a more effective listener.

Reading the passage from the devil and tom walker which of the following words describe there relationship? untrusting confidential conflicted hateful

Hurry and ! easter wings by george herbert lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, though foolishly he lost the same, decaying more and more, till he became most poore: with thee o let me rise as larks, harmoniously, and sing this day thy victories: then shall the fall further the flight in me. my tender age in sorrow did beginne and still with sicknesses and shame. thou didst so punish sinne, that i became most thinne. with thee let me combine, and feel thy victorie: for, if i imp my wing on thine, affliction shall advance the flight in me. 14 select the correct answer. what does the structure of the poem as the outspread wings of a flying bird convey? a. the idea of victory in the second stanza of the poem b. the poet's wish to rise from the fallen state of humanity c. the overwhelming beauty of nature d. the effect of harmonious flight of birds