Read the following excerpt from leslie marmon silko’s story "the man to send rain clouds." before they wrapped the old man, leon took a piece of string out of his pocket and tied a small gray feather in the old man's long white hair. ken gave him the paint. across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and along the high cheekbones he drew a strip of blue paint. he paused and watched ken throw pinches of corn meal and pollen into the wind that fluttered the small gray feather. then leon painted with yellow under the old man's broad nose, and finally, when he had painted green across the chin, he smiled. the actions of leon and ken indicate that

What is the main effect produced by the repeated word pattern in the first two stanzas of the poem "your laughter"?

Iwill have sailed around the world by the end of next year. what is the verb form in the sentence? future perfect past emphatic present progressive past perfect

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched. how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship. the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism. the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology. the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.