Think of a favorite story. How does the writer let you know what’s going on? Consider the beginning, and explain how the writer introduces the characters, setting, and action to you, the reader. Make sure that your sentences are legible and clear. Follow all writing conventions including those for capitalization and punctuation.

My favourite story is 'There will come soft rains' by Ray Bradbury. I've noticed in his writing particularly this piece he uses repeating words and phrases to describe the mechanical functions of the house. Along with great auditory and visual description, he paints an amazing scene of the clockwork construct of the house. The very first sentence shows this.

"In the living room the voice-clock sang, 'Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up,  seven o 'clock!' as if it were afraid that nobody would"  The line being included of "As if it were afraid that nobody would" points to the great reason of this stories existence.

Another section, one with amazing visual description as opposed to the more auditory description of the voice-clock.

"'Nine-fifteen,' sang the clock, 'time to clean. '

Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The rooms were a crawl with the small cleaning  animals, all rubber and metal. They thudded against chairs, whirling their moustached runners,  kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped  into their burrows. Their pink electric eyes faded. The house was clean."

This is amazing at giving you a visual representation of what a daily chore in this house is like, How delicate such a process can be. It gives you a sense that one mistake can ruin the quiet inner workings of the house. Without even suggesting that anything go wrong because of how organized the scene is the descriptive languages helps portray almost everything in the story, the kitchen scenes with the smell of bacon, toast, and eggs. The sounds of the voice-clock and tiny cleaning mice. There are no characters, only the house. And the story makes you feel as though the house is a character, that it has just as much personality as a human. I genuinely love this story.

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)

the answer is b just took the tested