The phone at mary’s house has been ringing for three minutes nonstop, but she ignores it. she has watched a news item on the tv that has made her freeze with panic. three days before, four men entered a jewelry store carrying mallets and guns and ordered the people inside to get on the ground. among the people in the store was sergeant bruce prothero, a police officer and father of five who had a second job working as a security guard at the mall. the men grabbed almost $500,000 worth of jewelry and sprinted out; sergeant prothero dashed after them. in the mall parking lot, the men shot him three times from the car. sergeant prothero died as the men sped away. th

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

1. at the conclusion of chapter 13, the monster realizes that he has none of the qualities or possessions that human beings value, and so he worries the he will be forever miserable. he says, “oh, that i had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat! ” this statement recalls one made by victor frankenstein in chapter 10: “if our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might nearly be free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.” questions: what do these two statements suggest about the impact of knowledge? how do the statements affect the way readers view the monster and victor?

Which type of presentation aid is depicted in the image above? a. object/topic itself b. illustration c. chart d. technology