Read the excerpt from “how i learned english.” through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, and though my head felt heavy, i played on till dusk missing flies and pop-ups and grounders and calling out in desperation things like “yours” and “take it,” but doing all right, this excerpt is part of the poem’s rising action. falling action. climax. exposition.

The correct answer is "falling action". A falling action of a poem occurs when the climax of the story has passed, and the narrative is wrapped up and gives a closure. The excerpt from “How I Learned English" shown in the question, gives a closure by stating that the speakers does everything right but still feeling desperate with the problems.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

1 - shakespeare

2 - stephen king

3 - stephenie meyer

4 - seiichi morimura

5 - sabrina elkins

6 - sally cheney

7 - samantha hunter

8 - shelley bates

9 - sue civil-brown

10 - sylvie kurtz