What might it mean, for example, to “hold [a poem] up to the light like a color slide” (lines 2-3)? From the poem "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

Christina rossetti's decision to have a robin, a bush, the moon, and the ocean speak in "a wintry sonnet" is an example of what? ?