We had the best vacation ever in the history of the world! we went to a beautiful beach. the sand was white as snow. we lay in the shade of the whispering palm trees all afternoon, watching the butterflies and birds. in the evening, the ocean was glass. we could look right down into the water and see coral castles and bright fish. when i told my friends about it, they were all green with envy. they all said they wished they could have gone! rewrite this paragraph without the figures of speech and idioms.

Read the lines from "she walks in beauty." the smiles that win, the tints that glow, but tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent! which of wordsworth's beliefs about poetry is illustrated in these lines by byron? a. poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways. b. poetry should include fantastical, dreamlike settings. c. poetry should revolve around feelings and emotions. d. poetry should focus heavily on everyday situations.

Choose the answer. in the poem "i dwell in possibility," what is the motif? a. the house imagery b. the imagery of the outdoors c. the visitors d. the poetry

Annotate the following passage from franklin d roosevelt's inaugural address. be sure and include the following: a title that summarizes the passage notes in the margin or below the paragraph, perhaps including questions to which you'd like answers question marks or asterisks marking important information the underlining of important information any other marks or notes to you understand the passage in such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. they concern, god, only material things. values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.