Read the excerpt from "wherefore art thou romeo? ” but i didn’t sleep. i thought about how utterly miserable it would feel to mess up on stage, plus get a vile grade in english class, plus watch allison gloat. i got up before my alarm went off, arrived at school early, and slogged through the day like a sleepwalker. finally the last bell chimed. "ready? ” shondra asked, when we were alone again in the spare classroom. we had two hours until we had to meet our teacher backstage. which statement best describes how the pacing of events heightens tension? the slow pace highlights how exhausted the narrator was on her big day. the slow pace gives the narrator time to carefully plot out her next move. the fast pace intensifies the conflict between the narrator and allison. the fast pace increases the narrator’s urgency in learning her lines.

Explanation:

The storyteller is on edge about her enormous day, yet the pace increments on the grounds that the storyteller "had two hours until we had to meet our teacher backstage."  

This is a standout amongst Shakespeare's best-known lines - from Romeo and Juliet, 1592.

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.