Read these passages from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. "Spanish Flu Mystery May Be Solved!"

Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the CDC, told the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), "By unmasking the 1918 virus, we are revealing some of the secrets that will help us prepare for the next pandemic."

"Fear of Food?"

Don’t worry about mad cow disease. But pay attention to E. coli.

We want you to enjoy your food. Really, we do. But there could be some nasty bacteria lurking in that burger. Or in that salad. . . .

Here’s how you can protect yourself from it.

What is the most likely reason why the author includes these passages?

to connect the various sections with humor
to add some positive notes to the serious overall tone
to emphasize the difficulty in dealing with these viruses
to cause the reader to be concerned about diseases

Define the following word using the meaning of the suffix. use your dictionary if you are uncertain of the definition. argument a. full of disagreement b. act of disagreement c. state of disagreement d. quality of disagreement

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

What literary technique is evident in these words from beowulf?