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read this description of phippsburg from lizzie bright and the buckminster boy.

so [turner] went on toward the sea. he passed the yellow-shuttered house, half wishing that mrs. hurd were on the porch. he passed the picket fence of mrs. cobb's, steering as clear of it as if it were the wall of jericho about to fall. he kept his face to the sea breeze as the line of white houses at the end of parker head sputtered, revived in a solid row, and finally gave out and let the road twist by itself up into cedars.

turner held himself to a slow walk, his hands politely out of his pockets. (who knew if mrs. cobb might still be watching him from some murky spot where dark things lurked? ) but as he climbed into the thicket of trees and the air grew cooler, and as the road thinned to a path, and as the cedars gave way to birches, then aspens, then pines, turner felt as though he were taking off the black robes that enveloped his father.

what aspect of phippsburg contributes to turner’s internal conflict at this point in the story?

a)the town is very small, and everybody can observe and comment on what turner is doing.
b)the town is built by the sea, and turner is afraid of one day being unexpectedly swept away by the high waves of the ocean.
c)the town is occupied mainly by women who remind turner of characters and places from the bible.
d)the town’s houses are all white and look the same, which makes the town seem boring, which makes turner want to leave.

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.

Which sentence best build the suspense

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the crowd begins to disperse just before the first martian exits the cylinder.when i returned to the common the sun was setting. scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice: "keep back! keep back! "a boy came running towards me."it's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; 'a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. i don't like it. i'm a-goin' 'ome, i am."what options accurately depict the impact of the boy's words on pacing within the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe setting is in england, so the boy's words provide the reader with the dialect of the area. even though that slows down the plot, the boy's words contain important information.the plot's forward movement is slow at the beginning of the excerpt because there is little action. the boy's words increase the tension and counteract that lag.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.wrong? the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.