Answer:
1. The speaker is in a contemplative mood.
2. The word 'turn' in this context means being born into the fold of animals instead of humans. It is a sort of reincarnation.
3. The speaker wishes to live with animals because they are calm, not easily upset, and contented.
4. Alliteration was employed in the words- long and long.
Explanation:
1. The poet Walt Whitman was likely contemplating or thinking to himself of all the attributes of animals which made them pleasing to him.
2. As a human, if he was to turn and live with animals, that would mean no longer being born as a human but rather being born into the fold of animals.
3. The speaker wishes to live with the animals because they are 'placid and self contain'd' which means that they are calm and not easily upset. They are also contented and do not drag each other for worldly possessions.
4. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letters or sounds of a string of words in a phrase. The letter repeated by the speaker is 'l'.
Answer:
25.1:
2) Richard is going to go to the cinema.
3) Rachel is going to meet with Dave.
4) Karen is going to have lunch with Will.
5) Sue and Tom are going to go to a party.
25.2:
2) Are you going to work next week?
3) What are you doing tomorrow evening?
4) What time are your friends coming?
5) When is Lisa going on holiday?
25.3:
3) I am going to volleyball on Thursday.
4) I am going to eat ice cream tonight.
5) My mom and I are going to the grocery store on Wednesday.
6) I am going to play basketball with my sister on Friday.
25.4:
3) She is getting
4a) are going
4b) are they going
5) is going to finish
6) I will not go
7) I am going to go; We are meeting
8a) are you getting
8b) is going to leave
9a) Are you coming
9b) is the film beginning
10a) are you doing
10b) I am working
A) As Thomas Jefferson is the direct object
