Ms. woods has always liked poetry, and even though she was shy when she was younger, she loved acting out poems with different voices and sounds. when she was in third grade, she would act out the poems in her room in front of the mirror. she promised herself that when she became a teacher, her poetry class would be fun! and it is! several students have already started performing, or slamming, their original poems in her class.

what is the purpose of using third person omniscient point of view in this exposition?

a. the author wants to teach students about poetry performances.
b. the author wants to persuade students to join the poetry slam team.
c. the author wants to entertain by using slam poetry images.
d. the author wants to give us information about the protagonist, ms. woods.

Boss: oh no! that’s the phone again! secretary: blank boss: . a. shall i take it? b. will you answer it? c. can you do me a favor? d. may i hang it up?

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning

King claudius has resolved to do what (besides send hamlet to england)? what does this reveal about his character?