Select the noun phrase. the moon in the darkness was , turning everything it touched to silver. a) a magical semicircle b) pale and lacey c) glowing eerily d) cheerfully bright

Your answer to the question above would be A, that is, "a magical semicircle" is a noun phrase. Noun phrases are phrases which have a noun or a pronoun as head of the phrase together with any dependent words before or after the head. The noun head in this sentence is premodified by the qualitative adjective "magical".

B is not correct because it is an adjectival phrase, C stands for a verb phrase and, just the same as B, D is an adjectival phrase.

each poet admires poetry

they each admire poetry because they could just use an expression or verbally just say you but they both write in in poetry which shows they know how to write in poetry.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)