Ashley saw much of the world through books. She also gathered knowledge of other worlds through books. Ashley had a vivid imagination, and her reading fueled her daydreams. When she daydreamed about her life, she could be whatever she wanted to be. She could be a dragon rider, a builder of futuristic cities, or a space explorer. The possibilities were endless. Every day, reading answered a lot of her questions about the world and left her with new ones. Select the correct answer.

Which element of plot is in this passage?

A. climax
B. exposition
C. rising action
D. resolution

Which excerpt from act 3 scene 2 of julius caesar is the best example of brutus’s use of pathos?

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

What is a positive result of the scientific revolution