Read the paragraph from a writer's argument essay in support library funding. “The Story Hour has been one of our most popular programs,” said Tomlinson. “Reading aloud helps bring literature to life for children, and I’m worried that without Story Hour, the kids will be getting more TV and less good literature.”

The paragraph provides support for the claim that library funding should not be cut because it provides important services to the community.

Which statement could the writer add to the paragraph to provide additional logical and relevant support for the claim?

A) Some libraries have staff members who run their Storytime program, while other libraries invite different interest groups in to lead Storytime for a day.

B) Studies show that library Storytime helps build early literacy skills like phonological awareness, spatial skills, and counting skills.

C) Of all library programs, Storytime is the most rewarding and fun for the staff.

D) Library Storytime is a source of wonderful memories for children and adults alike.

"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

Select the correct answer. who is the featured character in an earth diver story? a. a character who dives into water and brings up a small amount of mud or sand b. a character who travels to the center of earth and lives there c. a character who dives into the ocean and creates a new world underwater d. a character who comes from another world and teaches humans important skills

Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night. which of these statements best describes the remedy arnold proposes for the world? a. look to your dreams for answers to life's questions. b. our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive chaos. c. in this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith. d. the world may end, but love conquers all.