ANSWER ASAP WILL GIVE POINTS Read the excerpt from "Rosa" by Rita Dove.
How do the short sentences and the punctuation affect
the tone of the excerpt?
Doing nothing was the doing:
the clean flame of her gaze
carved by a camera flash.
How she stood up
when they bent down to retrieve
her purse. That courtesy.
They emphasize the speaker's admiration for her
subject
They demonstrate the speaker's confusion over the
situation.
O They reinforce the speaker's presentation of
historical events.
They reveal the speaker's relationship to the main
topic

Read the poem from "my brothers’ flying machine: orville, wilbur, and me" by jane yolen first before answering these questions. part a: how do lines 1–23 most support a theme of the poem? question 1 options: a by describing how heavy the constructed plane would be b by detailing the commitment that went into the first flight c by showing how tunnels were used to make test flights d by illustrating the challenges of fueling the plane read the poem from "my brothers’ flying machine: orville, wilbur, and me" by jane yolen first before answering these questions. part b which evidence from the poem best supports the answer to part a (question 1)? question 2 options: a “now they worked dawn to dusk / so absorbed in what they were doing,” (lines 1–2) b “they learned about lift and drag.” (line 9) c “gasoline was gravity-fed into the engine” (line 19) d “over six hundred pounds of aeroplane— / it could not be assembled whole in our shop.” (lines 22–23)