Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” that winter we didn’t make much progress, for i was in school and doodle suffered from one bad cold after another. but when spring came, rich and warm, we raised our sights again. success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold, and our campaign got off to a good start. on hot days, doodle and i went down to horsehead landing and i gave him swimming lessons or showed him how to row a boat. sometimes we descended into the cool greenness of old woman swamp and climbed the rope vines or boxed scientifically beneath the pine where he had learned to walk. promise hung about us like the leaves, and wherever we looked, ferns unfurled and birds broke into song. which sentences from the excerpt most emphasize that spring has become a symbol of hope for the boys? check all that apply. a. that winter we didn’t make much progress, for i was in school and doodle suffered from one bad cold after another. b. but when spring came, rich and warm, we raised our sights again. c. success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold, and our campaign got off to a good start. d. sometimes we descended into the cool greenness of old woman swamp and climbed the rope vines or boxed scientifically beneath the pine where he had learned to walk. e. promise hung about us like the leaves, and wherever we looked, ferns unfurled and birds broke into song.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification