Rather timidly, the small boy approaches the exceptionally tall man.

Which word does the adverb "timidly" modify?

a. small

b. boy

c. approaches

Read the excerpt from "Home Front Diary." Jimmy Simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. He asked me if I would write to him, and I said I would.

This is a story of an eighty year old woman lying in bed, getting groggy, and dying. I can't see why it should interest anybody. How would you answer this critic?

What is one way that henry's speech appeals to ethos?

Excerpt from Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte They had got me by this time into the apartment indicated by Mrs. Reed, and had thrust me upon a stool: my impulse was to rise from it like a spring; their two pair of hands arrested me instantly.

What is the other word for 'every week'

Who introduced a new focus on realism?

What rhetorical device does Thomas Jefferson use in this passage? He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people: parallelism irony alliteration allusion

Write three sentences explaining the historical context and setting of The Call of the Wild. Think about the descriptions of Buck's journey.

Which of the following are questions that the reader should ask before writing an interpretive essay? A) What does the writer say? B) How does he say it? C) Was what he said worthwhile? D) All of the above.

Read the passage from Beowulf. He joyed in the night-work, In repute for prowess; the prince of the Geatmen For the East-Danish people his boast had accomplished, Bettered their burdensome bale-sorrows fully, The craft-begot evil they erstwhile had