An illumination broke over his whole face when he saw her and joined her under the orange tree. "How many years have I slept?" she inquired. "The whole island seems changed. A new race of beings must have sprung up, leaving only you and me as past relics. How many ages ago did Madame Antoine and Tonie die? and when did our people from Grand Isle disappear from the earth?"

He familiarly adjusted a ruffle upon her shoulder.

—The Awakening,
Kate Chopin

Which word describes the tone created by Edna’s dialogue in this passage?
lonely

playful

mystical

somber

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor

You visit two websites about inventions of the 21st century. one has .edu in the url address and the other has .com. which site is more likely to be credible and why? (6 points) select one: a. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because all .com sites are trying to sell you something. b. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because its domain is a university or other school type. c. the .com site is more likely to be credible because all .edu sites are personal college student blogs. d. the .com site is more likely to be credible because its owners review all the content before publishing.

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic