Chocolate Cake (1)As Anju awoke, she quickly flipped back her bed sheets. She quietly crept out into the hallway and headed down to
the kitchen. There was just one piece of chocolate cake left. She lifted the dome cover off of the platter and stared at
the sweet confection with growing anticipation. Opening a drawer beneath the counter, Anju silently took a fork, sliced
off a piece, and lifted the fork to her mouth. As the chocolate frosting melted in her mouth, Anju closed her eyes. A
voice suddenly pierced the silence. "Hey!" Anju dropped the fork and looked up guiltily at her older brother.
1. What can the reader infer about Anju when she "crept out into the hallway and headed to the kitchen?"
A. Anju's parents had saved that piece of cake for her.
B. Anju celebrated her birthday on the previous day.
C. Anju does not want anyone to know what she is doing.
D. Anju has never eaten chocolate cake before
2. How does Anju's brother MOST LIKELY feel when he sees her eating the cake?
A. Amused
B. Angry
C. Uncaring
D. Happy

Read this excerpt of "from blossoms": from laden boughs, from hands,from sweet fellowship in the bins,comes nectar at the roadside, succulentpeaches we devour, dusty skin and all,comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.which word create a positive mood?

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.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)