Read the lines from the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.

What is the effect of the rhyme on these lines from the poem?
It suggests that the speaker is demanding.

It gives the poem a melancholy rhythm.

It makes words that are normally pleasant seem ugly.

It makes the poem seem harsh.

Fill in the blanks mommy told the kids, who promised they up their rooms by lunch, that they would go to the park. a would cleanb cleanedc have cleaned

Me read the letter. dear aunt mary, you for the wonderful painting. you are so talented! i was thrilled that you chose to paint horses. you must have remembered that i was crazy about horses when i was a little kid—and i still love them. i have hung the painting in my room so that i can see it every morning when i wake up. your loving niece, celia what makes this letter appropriate for its intended audience? it is written from the third-person point of view. it is concise and impersonal. its sentence structure is varied. its language is informal.

Match each excerpt to the epic characteristics it contains