Read this excerpt from “The Bridge.” I gaped at him, my mouth open like a fish scooping in bugs. Not play in the band? Give up my music? Why didn’t they just ask me to cut out my heart? I sat there staring at my father as though he had just turned into an alien, because for me he had. I didn’t know what in the world I was going to do. I could no more renounce my music than I could give up breathing.

Which term best describes how the narrator feels in this excerpt?

angered
shocked
annoyed
confused

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

“dènouement” is another word for the of a plot.

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances.there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.