Excerpt from A Trip to the Theater
Donn Saylor

3 Alexander had never seen a play, and he hadn't the faintest idea what this entailed. He had to dress up--something he really did not appreciate--so he anxiously awaited this particular Saturday outing with his grandmother with a certain degree of trepidation.

What is the meaning of the word trepidation as used in the third paragraph?

Which phrase best describes the role of irony in a written book? a. to validate readers’ beliefs b. to defy readers’ expectations c. to represent an idea d. to dramatize events apex

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

In an indians fathers plea medicine grizzly bear lake makes the argument that wind wolf is a slow learner how does he fail to build a strong argument?