8. Yet another public figure has come forward to announce he has signed into an addiction-treatment center to deal with his alcohol problems. Reports say
he has shown courage and honesty. Perhaps so, but what it really takes to
enter a treatment center is money. What about the poor man, like my father,
who may also have a drinking problem—and courage—but who doesn't
happen to have $500.00 a day for a fancy rest home?
a. bitter
b. revengeful
c. sentimental

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.