Read this excerpt from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California." Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? Ginsberg most likely makes this allusion to Garcia Lorca to show his respect for Lorca for being an unconventional poet. celebrate his affinity for Spanish culture and language. explain his confusion over Lorca’s desire for cultural conformity. describe their role in contributing to American consumerism.

Which sentence has a correctly placed participial phrase? a. we read about a pizza on the menu covered in pepperoni. b. covered in pepperoni, we read about a pizza on the menu. c. we, covered in pepperoni, read about a pizza on the menu. d. we read about a pizza covered in pepperoni on the menu.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.

Lines 47–56: determine the central idea of these lines