Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the news would pour out of various devices interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. i would call my friends on other devices; they would be more or less mad for similar reasons. what is the effect of ruckeyser’s repetition of the word “devices” in the first and third lines of “poem”? a. it suggests that the poem is set at an earlier time. b. it to create a mechanical, robotic tone in the poem. c. it emphasizes the speaker’s feeling of detachment toward the war. d. it creates a metaphor comparing humanity to manufactured objects.

Air is made of gaseous elements and compounds that interact but are not bound to each other. so air can be considered a

Many plains indians who were forced onto reservations had trouble adapting because they were not used to living within borders. used to hunting for their food. not used to living in communities. used to working in factories.

Read the excerpt from the declaration of independence. nor have we been wanting in attention to our brittish brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. we have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. what is the author’s purpose in this excerpt? to inform readers about british immigration to the colonies to convince readers that britain has treated the colonists unfairly to inform readers about specific acts of british military aggression to convince readers that american colonists should be tried in britain