The gray clouds began to gather as the sun set. the sky grew darker than the sky grew darker than the hour called for. winds made tiny tornadoes of the leaves on the street. the beach had cleared out earlier than usual. townspeople secured their cottage windows and hunkered down for the inevitable.
what can best be implied from the passage ?
a. it was the fourth of july
b. a hurricane was forecast.
c. the people were vacationers.
d. it was springtime in the town.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

According to the article about rita doves poem what do hades and demeter have in common

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.