Our whole family spent the day at the beach. It was a bright and breezy day, perfect for flying kites. My father held the kite high as I unrolled the cord. I started running across the sparkling sand. The kite rose easily on the wind. My parents cheered. Once aloft, the kite leaped in the air like a trout in blue water. I gave the cord to my little sister. As she felt the tugging of the kite, she laughed out loud. “I’m fishing in the sky.” 1. Which phrase best defines mood in a literary work and why?

A. the reader’s opinion about the work

B. language that describes the physical senses

C. the overall feeling the work produces

D. the writer’s purpose in writing

Bees don't eat flowers they gather nectar from them and take it back to the hive. complete, run on or comma splice

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator