Read the excerpt from the poem "Barbara Frietchie.”

All day long through Frederick street
Sounded the tread of marching feet:

All day long that free flag tost
Over the heads of the rebel host.

Which is most likely the author's purpose in using "all day long” in two successive rhyming couplets?

to help readers visualize the flag
to foreshadow what will happen next
to reflect what happened in the past
to emphasize a specific time frame

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What details of the first two paragraphs convey a sense of the ordinary, behind the scenes routines of film critics?

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”