Ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark
dripping gardens where odours arose from
the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables
where a coachman smoothed and combed
the horse or shook music from the buckled
harness. When we returned to the street light
from the kitchen windows had filled the areas.
If my uncle was seen turning the corner we
hid in the shadow until we had seen him
safely housed. Or if Mangan's sister came out
on the doorstep to call her brother in to his
tea we watched her from our shadow peer up
and down the street. We waited to see
whether she would remain or go in and, if she
remained, we left our shadow and walked up
Review the underlined phrases in the first
paragraph of the passage, on pages 1 and 2
Click the underlined phrase that MOST suggests
the narrator and his friends recognize the
inherent danger of the neighborhood.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the rhyme scheme of "an open boat" is abcb abab abba aabc

Based solely on their titles, which contemporary novel most likely contains a mythological element that is also found in “cruel tribute? ”

What characteristics show passage 3 to be poetry?