Read the following excerpt and answer the question that follows. Anne (pulling out a pasteboard-bound book). A diary! (She throws her arms around her father.) I've never had a diary. And I've always longed for one. (She looks around the room.) Pencil, pencil, pencil, pencil. (She starts down the stairs.) I'm going down to the office to get a pencil.

Mr. Frank. Anne! No! (He goes after her, catching her by the arm and pulling her back.)
How does this dialogue about the setting affect Anne's perception of their situation?

She begins to understand the seriousness of their circumstances.
She wants to go downstairs to the office to get a pencil.
She is excited to have a diary to record her experience in the Secret Annex.
She is angry that her father will not let her listen to the radio.

Which information would the reader know if the mother were the narrator? select each correct answer. what the father thought about his wife's involvement in politics

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful