Which of the following lines can be described as conveying the idea that childhood is fleeting?on the “first skating party” poem

A. Dozens of kids circle/the worn wooden floor/on old rental skates (lines 1-3)

B. the simple technique/of steering straight/into the cinder-block barrier (lines 8-10)

C. they know their children/have bones of balsa/and skin that tears/as easily as a napkin (lines 15-18)

D. the ones they love/strobe past them/faster and faster/just beyond their reach (lines 24-27)

Which one event in the story almost caused them to turn back and give up? losing their donkeysthe descent into the volcanorunning into their first dead endlack of water

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.

Based on the map, which city will marco polo describe after kalhat if he continues northwest across the arabian sea? hormuz dhofar socotra venice