One of dickinson's most effective devices for conveying her ideas about human nature is personification. she uses a bird to her describe the abstract idea of hope, declaring that "hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul, / and sings the tune without the words, / and never stops at all." in this particular poem, dickinson is describing that most intimate of human qualities, hope — the quality that makes us persevere even through the raging storms of life. is the underlined commentary in the excerpt effective? is the underlined commentary in the excerpt effective? a. no, because the commentary has no relationship to the topic sentence or to the quote it references. b. yes, because the commentary connects dickinson's personification to her ideas about human nature. c. no, because the commentary simply paraphrases the quote. d. yes, because the author clearly connects to dickinson's feelings about birds. update: a

Yes, because the commentary connects Dickinson's personification to her ideas about human nature.

The commentary clearly connects the personification to ideas about human nature. In the commentary the author writes how hope is a "quality that masks us persevere". This connects with the personification in the poem because Dickinson, describing hope as "the thing with feathers" says that it "never stops at all". Persevere means to carry on through tough times without stopping. Option A is incorrect because it the commentary does connect. C is also incorrect because it adds more than a paraphrase when it talks about raging storms. D is also incorrect because birds really have nothing to do with this.

It is B on apex Yes, because the commentary connects Dickinson's personification to her ideas about human nature.

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.