Which of the following excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath is an example of asyndeton?
A. Two gasoline pumps in front, a screen door, a long bar, stools, and
a foot rail
B. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of
the nature of the change.
C. Pa borrowed money from the bank, and now the bank wants the
land. D. And he scrapes his griddle with the spatula and looks moodily at
the stew kettle

Don't eat the mushroom its poisonous

Imagine you are reading a story about a character named dray. dray is captain of the basketball team and practices for hours after school in order to achieve his goals of playing in the nba. one day, dray decides that he hates basketball. he quits the team and takes up knitting instead. what is the introduction of this new plot point is an example of a. an anticlimaxb. a conclusionc. a contrivanced. a climax

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine. com. poetry magazine, n. d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?