Read this sentence.

second, there is the new york of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.

how does the figure of speech “devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night” affect the passage?

a. it describes the way commuters use and abuse what the city has to offer.

b. it describes that habits of an insect population that plagues new york.

c. it compares the commuters’ behavior when they come to the city to that of insects.

d. it compares the number of new york commuters to an insect invasion.



excerpt from clarence darrow’s closing argument in illinois v. nathan leopold and richard loeb, august 22–25, 1924

…they wanted a complete crime. there had been growing in this brain, dwarfed and twisted as every act in this case shows it was dwarfed and twisted, there had been growing this scheme, not due to any wickedness of dickie loeb, for he is a child. it grew as he grew; it grew from those around him; it grew from the lack of the proper training until it possessed him. he believed he could beat the police. he believed he could plan the perfect crime. he had thought of it and talked of it for years. had talked of it as a child; had worked at it as a child, and this sorry act of his, utterly irrational and motiveless, a plan to commit a perfect crime which must contain kidnapping and there must be ransom, or else it could not be perfect, and they must get the money.

how does the frequent use of repetition in this excerpt advance the author's viewpoint about dickie loeb, the criminal?

a. it emphasizes that loeb was doomed to be unsuccessful in committing the crime.

b. it shows that loeb, in the speaker's view, was a merciless killer.

c. it demonstrates, in the speaker's view, that loeb was foolishly obsessed with the crime.

d. it implies that loeb was a misguided person who couldn't himself.



which quotation from the essay to create an affectionate tone in "here is new york"?

a. “…the man who lives in mamaroneck or little neck or teaneck, and works in new york, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses,…”

b. “there is, first, the new york of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable.”

c. “. . a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the public library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays.”

d. “the long island rail road alone carried forty million commuters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps.”



select the word from the drop-down menu that best suggests that the dog has been unable to find food.

as the dog approached, i noticed that its hair hung in mats from its frame.

a. bony

b. slim

c. narrow

d. slight