Imagine you are lost while on a trip. You stop and ask for directions. The gas station clerks instructions are as follows: "Go straight down 571 to the yellow blinking light; turn right; keep going til you see the old, red barn barn; that is where the Thompsons used to live; they were a nice family; turn left on the next dirt road; the county was supposed to pave it years ago; go about 3 miles or so and look for the little creek. It might be dried up these days. The house you want is about 2 miles on the right. It might still be white. They were thinking about painting it last summer." As you left, you realize that you had difficulty ___ the message.

What do the words spoken by the mouse in paragraph 3 tell us about her character?

Wind blowing briskly leaves falling from the tree which best identifies the form of poetry represented by the stanza? 1.) free verse2.) iambic pentameter3.)sonnet4.) quatain

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.