Ijust love woodstoves. i think they give off the best kind of heat. it radiates out from all sides and makes a room so toasty and cozy. also, many of them have windows on the front, so you can watch the fire burn. this has two advantages: it's pleasant to look at, and you can see if more wood needs to be added. woodstoves burn very efficiently, as you can tell if you look inside after one is done burning. you'll find there's almost nothing left! in a regular fireplace, there are always pieces of wood and paper that didn't burn completely. woodstoves can keep an entire small house warm in winter, because they throw off so much heat. of course, i was staying somewhere once where the woodstove was so efficient that the place got way too hot! we had to open all the windows and doors until it cooled down, which sort of defeated the purpose. but overall, i'm still a big fan of woodstoves. i wish i had one of my own.

one way the author shows that woodstoves are efficient is by
a. noting that not all the wood burns up.
b. saying that some types have windows.
c. comparing them to a regular fireplace.
d. telling how cozy they make a room.

Which is a higher ratio, 6: 9 or 3: 7

Which phrase best describes the role of irony in a written book? a. to validate readers’ beliefs b. to defy readers’ expectations c. to represent an idea d. to dramatize events apex

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion