Read and use the dictionary entry to answer the question. compact [kuhm-pakt] adjective 1. joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid; compact soil 2. arranged within a relatively small space; a compact kitchen [kuhm-pakt] verb 1. to join or pack closely together; consolidate 2. to make firm or stable [kom-pakt] noun 1. a small case containing a mirror, face powder, and a puff which sentence correctly uses the word compact as a noun? alicia folded the blanket into a compact square that fit inside her suitcase. the sullivan family has a compact car, which makes parking simple. mrs. jenkins pulled a compact from her purse and checked her makeup. mr. jameson compacted the trash tightly into the big plastic bin.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Now close reading is an essential and foundational skill needed to succeed in any language arts course. acquiring this skill will you form a strategy when writing about literature. you will be required to perform and develop this skill as you progress through this course and other courses in your school career. identify and discuss your areas of strength in language arts. what do you do well? what do you like doing in a course like this? why do those tasks work well for you? you can also identify a challenge you have that you’d like to work on throughout this course. use this discussion as an opportunity to give advice to your classmates based on your stronger skills and to ask for with skills you are still developing.

Ineed to write a write a 4–5 paragraph compare and contrast essay that addresses how anne frank matures over the course of writing her diary.it's also a compare and contrast essayi just got put into this new class and i don't know if we were supposed to already be reading and the essay is due today and i haven't even started it nor read the book, someone me what do i do