Discuss what is being compared and contrasted in the following two paragraphs. Paraphrase the comparisons and contrasts in each passage. Look for signal words: "while", "than",
"comparison"

1) "Utilities around the country are promoting their growing use of renewable energy like hydroelectric dams, wind turbines and solar panels, which
collectively provided more power than coal-fired power plants for the first time last year. But even as they add more green sources of power, the
industry remains deeply dependent on natural gas, a fossil fuel that emits greenhouse gases and is likely to remain a comerstone of the electric grid for
years or even decades

2) "Proponents of renewable energy note that solar panels are increasingly the cheapest source of electricity Solar panels can deliver power to 650
homes for one hour one megawatt-hour in industry jargon at $1 to $111 a megawatt-hour according to Lazard, the investment firm. By
comparison, natural gas peaking plants which utilities
can turn on and off quickly to meet surging demand, deliver power at $122 to 5162 a megawatt
hour

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Have you ever thought you understood a person based on a story that you have heard about them? have you ever guessed about a person's personal life because of the clothes they wore? or, have you judged a person because of their friends? although classifying people in this way is typically discouraged, authors deliberately use your preconceived ideas to you form an opinion about the character or to at least have a better understanding. can you think of a time that you made a character call about someone based on external aspects? were you correct, or incorrect? has anyone ever made an incorrect assessment of you based on external aspects? write two paragraphs about it in your journal.

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