Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt? Read this excerpt from "The Spirit of Alcatraz." As the months passed, the occupation began to lose some of its momentum, and several occupiers left the island to return to school or family life. Things became more difficult when the government cut off phone service to the island, followed by electrical power and fresh water, O casual scientific O humorous O factual Finally, on June 11, 1971, a large force of government agents arrived on Alcatraz and removed the last fifteen people - six men, four women, and five children. After nineteen months, the occupation was over.

In what way does the first line of "london, 1802" vary from the traditional iambic pattern? the word milton is an iamb the word milton is a dactyl the word milton is a trochee?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What is most likely nelson mandela's purpose of using third person point of view after introducing himself in his introductory paragraphs