Read the passage. When campaigns for student council began, Lashandra was excited to run for class secretary. Her capable performance in role of class
representative for the past two years meant she could now hold a higher office. For months, Lashandra would rush home and write letters to
teachers and students asking for their support. She designed campaign signs to hang in the main hall. She called fellow classmates to ask for their
votes. Her efforts to win proved successful. Her victory proved that many in the school community believed she would make a competent class
secretary
Based on the word "capable," what does competent mean as it is used in the passage?
O 1. lively, full of energy
2. popular; widely known
3. persistent; never giving up
4. qualified; having the necessary abilities
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Question # 4
Quyne Raeshele Tubbs, ID#58
Growth: Reading 6+ TX 2017

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification