(1) maureen enjoys all of the seasons. (2) winter is her favorite season. (3) during winter, maureen likes to have snowball fights and build snow forts outside. (4) next, there is spring, which is maureen's second favorite season. (5) she likes spring because all of nature seems to have new life. (6) maureen can play at the beach in the summer, it is her least favorite season because it is so hot. (7) finally, there is autumn. (8) autumn's cool temperatures and beautiful colors make it nice after summer's hot weather. (9) altogether, maureen likes each season but is happy to move on to the next season when it is time. 17 which is the best way to rewrite sentence 2? a. however, winter is her favorite season. b. instead, winter is her favorite season. c. in fact, winter is her favorite season. d. second, winter is her favorite season.

Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite "on the road to mandalay.” she only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use. she repeated the line over and over again in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice; it seemed to the bachelor as though some one had had a bet with her that she could not repeat the line aloud two thousand times without stopping. whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet. "come over here and listen to a story,” said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord. the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation. in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. which instances of situational irony occur in the passage? select two options. a.) “whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet.” b.) “‘come over here and listen to a story,’ said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord.” -- c.) “the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.” d.) “evidently her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high in their estimation.” -- e.) “in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”