My House, It Cries What is revealed by the repetition of the
words, "Help, please help throughout the
poem?
This noisy house of mino
Complains so much of the time,
Out of bed, as my foot hits the ground
A croaking moan begins to sound
the loud volume of the speaker's music
"Help, please help loose floorboards say
But I must hurry to begin my work day
"Help, please help they still insist.
tater" I say, and yet they persist.
the speaker's nagging feeling of responsibility
the speaker's busy work schedule
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Then, in the kitchen a soggy surprise.
I look up at the ceiling and rub my eyes.
Drip drip drip. What is that sound?
A puddle of rain, like toars on the ground,
the mistaken order of the speaker's tasks
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Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

His is a verbal or oral response to an argument presenting an opposite viewpoint. slanted wordstabloid thinkingappeal to authoritybandwagoncard stacking generalityintertextual referencesname callingplain folks tactics

Which text evidence from the passage supports the theme that even nonliving things contain a life force? select two options.it was close and dry and dusty in the house of the gods.” “i have said the magic was gone but that is not true—it had gone from the magic things but it had not gone from the place.” “i felt the spirits about me, weighing upon me.” “nor had i ever slept in a dead place before—and yet, tonight, i must sleep there.” “when i thought of it, my tongue felt dry in my throat, in spite of my wish for knowledge.” “almost i would have gone down again and faced the dogs, but i did not.”