Read the haiku. birds scatter in flight colorful specks in the air noisy confetti the main feature that makes this a haiku is the use of

a seasonal motif.
a patterned rhyme.
a 5/7/5 syllable pattern.
past tense and free structure.

The main feature that makes this a haiku is the use of:

a 5/7/5 syllable pattern

A haiku is a short poem, that is composed by three verses that do not rhyme. It has a 5/7/5 syllable pattern. They usually talk about nature and say in which season of the year the poem is taking place. There is no seasonal motif in the poem and the poem is in present tense.

(Birds)   (sca) (tter)  (in)   (flight)

(Co) (lor) (ful)   (specks)   (in)   (the)   (air)

(Noi) (sy)   (con) (fe) (tti)

The correct answer is: a 5/7/5 syllable pattern.

A haiku is a popular type of japanese poetry. It is characterized by having three lines, in which the first and the last one have five moras or syllables, and the middle one has seven. In other words, it's pattern is 5-7-5.

Another important aspects of hikus are that they don't rhyme, the make reference to a season (kigo), and they describe nature.

In this case by counting the syllables we can see that it respects the 5-7-5 pattern which is the most important aspect in a kaiku. It also refers to nature as it mentions birds, the only element that is missing is the reference to a season. Flight, air and confetti don't rhyme.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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