Read the passage below and answer the question that follows.

my friend, myla, is meeting with the school board today to persuade them to expand our student council from three members to nine, so that each grade can have three representatives. she says having only three students in control of all of the student council decisions is unfair when there are almost a thousand students in the school, and calls it a(n)
which vocabulary word would best fit in the blank above?

persuasion
oligarchy
indictment
discord

Which statement most accurately describes the aesthetic impact of theexcerpt?

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret

Which is the most accurate definition of a clause? a) a clause is any group of two or more words. b) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. c) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone. d) a clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb that cannot stand alone.