Complete each sentence with a
form of one of
the verbs from
the list. Use each
verb once only

afford, bear, continue, expect, happen, learn, love, offer, prefer, pretend

a) John really ...lexes spending all day at the beach.
b) I'm completely broke, so I can't to go on holiday.
c) Excuse me, but do you to know the way to Old Street?
d) We
Our team to win, but they were badly beaten.
e) Kate to speak French and German when she was at school.
f) Even when the examiner told him to stop, Bill ... speaking
g) I'm sorry, but I can't to listen to this awful music!
h) Last week George
to help me paint my bike.
i) Paul to have a bad leg so he didn't have to go to the gym.
j). Sam usually playing football to doing homework.​

In 1840, victor went to germany. he went there to

"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

How historical events such as the civil war influenced the american literature