Alex has returned home from a camping trip and wants to read about current events that happened while he was away. Which nonfiction text best matches Alex’s reading purpose?

the latest edition of the newspaper
a textbook from a social studies class
an editorial about a controversial issue
a biography about a serving politician

Write two sentences that incorporate 'imagery' (all of your senses) to describe a place that you like to visit.

Christina rossetti's decision to have a robin, a bush, the moon, and the ocean speak in "a wintry sonnet" is an example of what? ?

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)