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December 27, 2025

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Feature The Skater of Ghost Lake by William Rose Benet Ghost Lake’s a dark lake, a deep lake and cold: Ice black as ebony, frostily scrolled; Far in its shadows a faint sound whirs; Steep stand the sentineled deep, dark...
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The Skater of Ghost Lake by William Rose Benet Ghost Lake’s a dark lake, a deep lake and cold: Ice black as ebony, frostily scrolled; Far in its shadows a faint sound whirs; Steep stand the sentineled deep, dark firs. A...
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A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my Desert and my dear relief Reprinted By Consent of Brooks Permissions Question Use the lines to answer the question. What poetic elements d...
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What might an epiphany provide to a narrative’s conclusion?(1 point) Responses It can add strength and reinforce the story’s theme. It can add strength and reinforce the story’s theme. It can make connections between var...
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Which way of ending a story would most likely create a surprise for the reader?(1 point) Responses Ending by revealing the deepest secret of one character. Ending by revealing the deepest secret of one character. Ending...
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Feature All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was just out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the systematized hysteria of the war. In the bl...
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The Slow March of Light by Heather B. Moore One of the men stepped in front of her, so she stepped around him, but he moved again. “Let me pass,” she said in a low voice. “Where are you from?” he said. Luisa glanced up a...
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Which description is an example of dramatic irony?(1 point) Responses A marriage counselor files for divorce from her fourth husband. A marriage counselor files for divorce from her fourth husband. A person is asked how...
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Sinking and Swaddled by Beth Gilstrap She swore she felt the earth drop—like a hitch in an elevator—several miles from her mother’s house. She thought of all those bedlinens agitated, curled, heaped on top of her mother,...
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothi...
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Use the excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau to answer the question. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to...
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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out—”Who’s there?” I kept quite still and...
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The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I a...
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Feature The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allen Poe The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of...
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Use the paragraph to answer the question. The data presented in this paper has shown that the water situation in the American West will continue to get more perilous unless something is done, now. This part of the countr...
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I am all alone in the house to-night; They would not have gone away Had they known of the terrible, bloodless fight I have held with my heart to-day. With the old sweet love and the old fierce pain I have battled hour by...
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Question Which is the purpose of an infographic?(1 point) Responses to emphasize a particular item in a list to emphasize a particular item in a list to introduce the topic of a section of text to introduce the topic of...
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Question Which distinction best completes the sentence? Select the correct answer from the list.(1 point) Scholars long believed Homer was a poet who was blind and who sang his epic works rather than writing them down. m...
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The mangled sinews of commerce in so much of the Southland only added to the despair. Railroad tracks torn apart. Fields fallow, hardened, and barren. Bridges that once defied the physics of uncrossable rivers destroyed....
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Which sentences follow correct conventions for English usage? Select the two correct answers.(1 point) Responses I don’t think it’s that hard to read a whole book in one week if it’s a good book. I don’t think it’s that...
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Question Use the statement below to answer the question. Thesis statement: The ease and ability to make friends evolves over a person's lifetime. Which facts or details develop the thesis statement? Select the two correc...
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"Why are yawns contagious? We asked a scientist" by Teresa Carey What is known is that the behavior is contagious. The likelihood of yawning increases six fold, according to one study, after seeing someone else yawn. As...
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"Keep Conspiracy Theories from Ruining Family Time" by Nsikan Akpan “It’s certainly strategic to say that you are the victim of a conspiracy, that there is a witch hunt out to get you. Because it sort of throws those acc...
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Question How does knowing that the morpheme ante means “prior” help a reader know the meaning of the word antechambers?(1 point) Responses It helps them know that it means “going somewhere first.” It helps them know that...
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However when under duress by pests, such as when ants destroy their roots, plants are known to produce chemicals to ward off invaders. So for this study, Barbero and her colleagues grew oregano in enclosed terrariums wit...
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