Read this passage: powerful dreams feel important to the dreamer and full of meaning. but many scientists are confident that dreams are random and empty. still, even the most unimaginative researcher must concede that a dream is a mystery within a mystery. after all, science has failed to answer the basic question of where in our brains dreams are born. using the context of the passage, what is the most likely meaning of the word concede? a. to predict b. to admit c. to advise d. to precede

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.