Excerpt 1
I lay in bed, quivering underneath my blankets, staring up at the ceiling above me. I heard the pattering of feet, like a small child running on tiptoe. I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. Something was in the attic.
"It's just my imagination," I said quietly.
Scenes from earlier that day played like a movie in my mind. I saw my family's car turning off the highway. I watched as our car turned onto a winding road. The sky was cloudy, and the wind rustled through the Spanish moss hanging from the cypress trees. We drove into the darkness of the trees' shadows.
Excerpt 4
Jeremy raced to the beach and scrambled up onto a log. He pretended it was a spaceship. "Vroom! Roar!" The spaceship blasted off. Jeremy pretended he was soaring through space, searching for flying saucers.
That's when he noticed a small black head poking up from the water. Its two beady eyes stared at him. This creature was definitely not pretend. "Yikes, a space alien!" he screamed, leaping off the log. He dashed for the cabin and burst into the kitchen.
Answer:
Narrator
Explanation:
Narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.
Answer:
1. Magda is going to finance her car purchase using an auto loan.
The statement that is accurate is:
"Her principal is the cost of the car, minus any down payment she makes."
Explanation:
Magda's principal for the auto loan is the cost of the car after deducting any down payment that she makes. The interest expense of the auto loan will be calculated based on the principal, using the rate of interest agreed with the auto company. Down payments reduce the interest expense on the auto loan as well as the principal.
Explanation:
c is the answer ok do you understand
Answer:
I would also choose letter C) stars, dreams, looking upward, Heaven.
Explanation:
Brooks' poem depicts the situation of a poor elderly couple. Everything that surrounds them reveal their penury: the plain chipware, the creaking wood, the tin flatware. They have lived their lives in such poverty, and they have grown used to it, just like they have grown used to eating beans, a cheap food. Still, at the end of the poem, Brooks lets us know that, even in that environment - a back room full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths -, they still remember their dreams. The word "twinkling" is the indication of that. It conveys the feeling of something bright, sparkling, which is usually associated to happiness. The "twinge" would be the painful memories; the couple has had both, good and bad times, hopes and tragedies. And, even in deprivation, those memories make their lives full.