The day of the audition, Lily woke up early and walked downstairs to join her mother and Kip in the kitchen.  She sat down to a healthy breakfast and Kip asked her, "So, are you nervous for today?" "Not really, Kip," she said.  "It is really no big deal because I have auditioned a million other times," she said, swallowing the truth that she was, in fact, terrified.

How does the author's inclusion of this excerpt contribute to the text?

It shows that Kip is intelligent.

It shows that Lily is too proud to admit to her brother that she is afraid.

It shows that Kip is unkind, as he is trying to make Lily more nervous than she already is.

It shows that Lily is dishonest at heart.

elise is writing a literary analysis of a biographical essay about emily dickinson.

which of the following should elise use in order to provide a strong claim statement in the introduction to her analysis?

a.  

“a life apart” by julia golding maintains that emily dickenson wrote over a thousand poems during her life.

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.