Read the passage from "how should one read a book? ”

then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—defoe, jane austen, hardy. now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery.

if the passage were presented as a play, how would it most likely differ from its current genre?

a. the author might place defoe, austen, and hardy in a setting on jupiter.
b. the author might go into detail about the lives of defoe, austen, and hardy.
c. the author might write a plot in which defoe, austen, and hardy solve a crime.
d. the author might include dialogue for the roles of defoe, austen, and hardy.

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

The purpose of using personification in the excerpt is to show how? enrique’s journey.

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these