Spring had come. the people moving to and fro were gaily chattering. behind the fences of the little gardens, the buds on the trees were swelling, and their branches rustled faintly in the fresh breeze. youth and gladness were in the sky and on the earth and in the heart of man. what mood or atmosphere is established by this paragraph?

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Shauna wants to use facts from a government website in her speech. which element is she adding to her speech? a. background information b. narrative c. evidence d. commentary e. theme

The limerick and the tongue twister are two types of verse. a) nonsense b) articulation c) declaration d) interrogation