1. creating a poem look around you. notice something you’ve never noticed before. how does noticing this thing make you feel? for instance, suppose you noticed the silver underside of the leaves blowing in the wind outside your window. perhaps the leaves inspire you with their beauty: they make you feel more aware of the joy of being alive. on the other hand, the leaves may depress you because you realize that the beauty is going to exist only briefly. the leaves will fall when the weather turns cold, and this makes you all the more aware of being mortal. write a few lines of poetry describing the thing you’ve noticed. make sure to use vivid nouns and verbs. try to make the reader see, hear, smell, taste, and touch what you experience. in this way, try to make the reader feel what you feel without explaining what you feel. for instance, if you use the leaf example, you may want to make the reader feel joy at being alive, without using those words.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet

Which of the following sentences refers to a conflict between characters in "two kinds"?

Article 1: article 2: valido accused of accepting bribes unpopular conservative senator raymond valido (r-louisiana) stands accused of accepting more than $1 million in campaign donations from the nosco oil company in exchange for his efforts to pass a bill. the bill would allow the company to build a massive oil pipeline that will span the entire east coast of the us. senate colleagues on both sides of the aisle are demanding valido release his campaign finance reports. “if valido did accept these contributions from nosco, he essentially accepted a bribe and is now fulfilling his part of the bargain,” said senator michelle saud (d-new hampshire). the federal election commission saw no evidence of unlawful conduct in valido’s fundraising. however, if the senator did accept contributions in return for legislative favors, he may be censured by the senate. what is the reporter’s motive in article 1? what is the reporter’s motive in article 2? which term from senator nelson’s quote in article 2 is an example of bias?