Me with two questions.
1. tony is hoping to be selected for the all-county basketball team. he sets the following goal for himself:
i want to improve my free throw percentage by four points over the next six weeks, from 70% to 74%, so i can try out for the all-county basketball team.
which statement best describes tony's goal?
tony's goal is effective because it is measurable, attainable, and has a clear deadline.
tony's goal is ineffective and unrealistic because it does not explain what he is going to do to improve his time or the amount of times he will have to time himself.
tony's goal is effective and realistic because it shows that he is going to practice hard because improving his time is important to him.
tony's goal is ineffective and unrealistic because he does not have enough experience to make the all-county team.
2. you by mehret asgedom
just what would you say
if i could throw my thoughts away?
yep, just like that. gone.
i'd like to toss them into the sea, you see—
to fling them far away from me.
not all, of course, that wouldn't do.
just the ones that are about you.
in this poem, mehret asgedom
makes her feeling seem unrealistic by exaggerating them through the use of figurative language
uses a simple rhyme scheme that gives a light quality to painful feelings
shows that she has forgiven the subject of the poem using a direct address
invites readers to understand why she would like to throw her thoughts away

The answers to each of your questions, and the explanation for them, would be thus:

1. Tony is hoping to be selected for the all-county basketball team. He sets himself the goal of improving his free throw percentage from 70 to 74%, and in that way he hopes to try for the all-county basketball team. The best statement to describe Tony´s goal would be: A: Tony´s goal is effective because it is measurable, attainable, and has a clear deadline. Tony shows in the way that he plans his goal that he knows exactly what would be expected of him to enter the all-county basketball team and his goal of going up four points on his percentage is not really very high, which makes the goal realistic and attainable. He also is clear on the deadline he himself has to reach his goal, which shows that he has his ideas pretty clear and how to get to the. This is why the answer is the first option.

2. In this poem, Mehret Asgedom: Uses a simple rhyme scheme that gives a light quality to painful feelings. The poem "You" by Mehret Asgedom does have a really easy pattern and rhyme, and the concepts, and emotions, displayed in those lines are also pretty clear and straightforward. She does not overexaggerate the feelings, but she makes it pretty clear, in a very concise and simple manner, that she is hurt and that she wants to get rif of her feelings with all her heart.

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.