Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of lizzie bright and the buckminster boy. one afternoon, after another dreary sunday, he walked home from mrs. cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to malaga island. it scooted around him and pulled at his ears. it threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing. but with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, turner would not let himself be brought to malaga. and so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. turner watched it rushing pell-mell down parker head and toward the shore. "go find lizzie," he whispered.

"to tell it right, it was through you i found my life and breathed again, and then through you my eyesight failed." this quote is from oedipus the king, explain why it's significant, paying special attention to word choice, figurative language, and the larger themes it reflects.

Read this excerpt from i never had it made. "it's all that ought to count," he replied. "but it isn't. maybe one of these days it will be all that counts. that is one of the reasons i've got you here, robinson. if you're a good enough man, we can make this a start in the right direction. but let me tell you, it's going to take an awful lot of courage." he was back to the crossroads question that made me start to get angry minutes earlier. he asked it slowly and with great care. "have you got the guts to play the game no matter what happens? " "i think i can play the game, mr. rickey," i said. the next few minutes were tough. branch rickey had to make absolutely sure that i knew what i would face. beanballs would be thrown at me. i would be called the kind of names which would hurt and infuriate any man. i would be physically attacked. could i take all of this and control my temper, remain steadfastly loyal to our ultimate aim? which is the central idea of this excerpt?

What do we call a two-syllable metrical foot that consists of one unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable? a. anapest b. dactyl c. iamb d. elision