Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason." "I told you I should have stayed home!" Billy protested plaintively. "I'm missing the first game of the playoffs, and my team really needs me!"

"I understand—" began his father.

"No, you don't understand," said Billy, "because you never cared about anything like I care about baseball, not in your whole life."

In the context of the story, the excerpt is ironic because Billy's father

1 is actually a very good baseball player.
2 named his son after a baseball player.
3 stayed away from the playoffs.
4 is more concerned about the family's vacation.

Which statement from "letter to his father" is similar to gregor's inability tocommunicate with his father as a bug in the metamorphosis?

How does loma cervantes celebrate her culture in “freeway 280”? ?

Read the lines from "there was a child went forth" and answer the question. and the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road; and the old drunkard staggering home from the out-house of the tavern, whence he had lately risen, and the school-mistress that pass'd on her way to the school, and the friendly boys that pass'd—and the quarrelsome boys, and the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the barefoot negro boy and girl, and all the changes of city and country, wherever he went. which poetic device is exemplified in this stanza? select all that apply. allegory anaphora imagery metaphor