Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1". Ellery hurried down West 92nd Street toward the main entrance of Henry Hudson High School stealing guilty glances at his watch. Miss Carpenter had been crisply specific about place, date, and time: her homeroom, 109; Friday morning, April 22nd; first period ("Bell at 8:40, Mr. Queen"). How does the author's word choice help express the tone of the excerpt? The negative connotations of the words "hurried," "guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of freedom. The negative connotations of the words "hurried," "guilty," and "crisply" give the excerpt a tone of pressure. The positive connotations of the words "toward," "entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of freedom. The positive connotations of the words "toward," "entrance," and "morning" give the excerpt a tone of pressure.

“dylan was a revolutionary,” bruce springsteen said in his 1988 speech inducting dylan into the rock and roll hall of fame. “the way that elvis freed your body, bob freed your mind.” early masterpieces such as “a hard rain’s a-gonna fall” and “visions of johanna” and “like a rolling stone” fueled a debate: are rock lyrics poetry? the answer must be yes, because on thursday, dylan was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy, in making him the first american winner since novelist toni morrison in 1993, cited him for “having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition.” –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca what is the best summary of the author’s claim? rock lyrics can be like poetry. bob dylan was a revolutionary. musicians deserve nobel prizes. more americans deserve nobel prizes.