Review the excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and answer the question that follows:
As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast
tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection. I lighted
the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the
mood nearly touched. A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank and with a a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath
and bushes, which I had collected. The wind fanned the fire and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and
licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.
How does the simile in the first sentence help explain how the narrator is feeling in this scene?
A. The fierce wind suggests that the narrator is angry.
B. The clouds suggest that the narrator is calm and serene.
C. The heavens suggest that the narrator is divine and reflective.
D. The avalanche suggests that the narrator is wild and crazed.

When is the best time to evaluate options? a. during the first step of decision-making b. as you identify options c. after you've identified many options

5. how might the statement, “the almighty has his own purposes” (line 39) relate to lincoln’s purpose in giving this speech?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification