In the following pairs of sentences only one is correct. Tick (√) the correct one. 1. a. He invented many of the terms which are still used in electricity. b. He invented much of the terms which are still used in electricity.

2. a) The electricity passed into the earth without doing some damage. b) The electricity passed into the earth without doing any damage.

3. a. Franklin was a man who liked a joke better than anything. b. Franklin was a man who liked a joke better than something.

4. a. This was something no scientist had ever done. b. This was anything no scientist had ever done.

5. a. He never took any money for his invention. b. He never took some money for his invention.

6. a. A lot of sand was drawn into the pumps with the water. b. Much sand was drawn into the pumps with the water.

7. a. He was an artist and knew little about science. b. He was an artist and knew few about science.

8. a. There was anything else for him to do. b. There was nothing else for him to do.

9. a. Electric lights were used everywhere at the party. b. Electric lights were used anywhere at the party.

10. a. They had plenty of tools and a lot of spare parts. b. They had many tools and much spare parts.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Identify the participle or infinitive phrase in the sentence below