I’m nobody! who are you?
are you — nobody — too?
then there’s a pair of us
don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!

how dreary — to be — somebody!
how public — like a frog —
to tell one’s name — the livelong june —
to an admiring bog!

why is the frog simile an effective image of the “somebody” in dickinson’s poem?

a. it blends in and does not disturb the bog.
b. it’s ugly, but people still admire it.
c. it croaks loudly, calling attention to itself.
d. it has many positive qualities that should be admired.

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c. t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.