What can you do to better understand an informational text? read each paragraph twice write out sections in your own words determine the author's purpose ask someone to read it aloud to you

How does the poem's mood and tone change in each of these stages of “o captain! my captain! ” by walt whitman? (i need an answer asap )

In one sentence of approximately 15 to 25 words, write the main idea that thomas paine wants to convert to all the readers of the declaration of independence

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.