About one in the morning, I heard a rumbling. Finally! The train was almost three hours late. I looked around. No one there but my family—no other passengers, no train attendant, no one to help us board. So we started lugging our four bags, two sleeping kids, two blankets, and three coats up the ramp to the platform. The train stopped. Two porters came out, grabbed my bags, then practically shoved the car seats, kids, and me onto the train. It wasn’t exactly the smooth trip I had expected. Which emotion best describes how the writer is feeling?

satisfied

annoyed

scared

sad

Which sentences from part 1 of the call of the wild would best serve as evidence of the theme "sometimes survival depends on knowing when not to fight"? buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. to be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. he had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command. but to his surprise the rope tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. he saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. he had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. that had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. they would never get another rope around his neck.

What is a mechanism by which organisms maintain homeostasis when the level of one substance influences the level of another substance or the activity of an organ.

Which poetic device did 14th century poets rely upon to make their verses easy to memorize? a. moral b. meter c. theme d. hyperbole