You Pick How tall is the one whose glass is half-full;
How small is the one whose glass is a near-empty pool.
How sunny is the one who sees the bright side of things;
How gloomy is the one whose heart to clouds clings.
One smile, a snapshot of glee shared with a stranger,
One frown, a beast growling with anger,
A choice to be made:
For joy - Will you be an open door
Or barricade?
How does the poem's rhyme scheme most clearly contribute to the meaning
of the poem?
O A. The rigidly structured rhyming pattern highlights the deadly
seriousness of the poem's topic.
O B. The fact that all the lines rhyme creates a lively pace to draw
attention to the poem's happy feel.
O C. The unstructured rhyming pattern expresses the speaker's
frustration with people who choose to be unhappy
D. The rhyming pairs of lines emphasize the contrast between
positive and negative attitudes.

B i hope this helps you

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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