The Shipwreck Emily Dickinson
GLEE! the great storm is over!
Four have recovered the land;
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling sand.
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Ring, for the scant salvation!
Toll, for the bonnie souls, -
Neighbour and friend and bridegroom,
Spinning upon the shoals!
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How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the children ask, “But the forty?
Did they come back no more?"
Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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(1)
1.1 What is the speaker celebrating in the first stanza?
1.2 Four consecutive words in the first stanza tell us about the conditions of the waves. Quote
these words and explain what they tell us about the conditions of the waves. (2)
.13 Is the speaker happy or sad in retelling the story of the storm? Justify your answer with
reasons in the text.
(3)
1.4 How does the speaker answer the children's questions in lines 11 and 12?
(2)
1.5 How does the speaker try to convey emotion in this poem? Justify with relevant examples
from the text.
(2)​

The “big dig” the “big dig” (the central artery/tunnel project) has been complex and challenging. located in boston, massachusetts, this tunnel is eight lanes wide and three-and-a-half miles long. what is most amazing about this tunnel is that it is constructed under a major highway and skyscrapers located in boston’s financial district. construction crews used “clamshell excavators” during this dig. these machines carved narrow trenches, and then a special substance was pumped into the trench to keep the dirt from caving in. finally, steel beams were lowered into the trench and concrete was pumped in. one problem that engineers faced while constructing the tunnel is the fact that the soil beneath boston is extremely loose and soggy. engineers solved this dilemma by freezing the soil and pumping very cold water into pipes beneath the city. to strengthen the soil even further, a special type of glue was injected into the ground to with the consolidation of the soil. 23 which phrase best defines the word excavator as used in the passage? a. a device used to measure underground temperatures b. a device used to level uneven surfaces c. a device used to move heavy objects d. a device used to dig holes