Reading for understanding 1. According to the poem, what does the African lion enjoy
eating?
2. What does the lion do when he takes a bite out of a good boy?
3. What is the worst injury that a good boy will sustain from the
lion?
4. If the good boy sustains this worst injury, will he be any better
off than the bad boy? Give your reasons.
5. How do you think the poet wanted his readers to react to this
poem?
6. Which parts of the poem tell you that the poet was not writing
a serious poem?
7. How did you react to the poem?​

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding assemblies constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted, are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. in at least 100 words, explain what jefferson says here about the revocability of laws and what that means for his virginia statute for religious freedom.

Eliezers father sates, "what a shame that you did not go with your i saw many children your ago go with their " how is this statement an example of dramatic irony?

Which of these excerpts from carl sandburg's "three boys with jugs of molasses and secret ambitions" uses repetition?