Answer:
The narrator wants to see the "Evil Eye" once more before he kills the old man, but each night for the first week the old man is asleep when he sneaks into his room. Hope this helps! =)
amazing, lovely, superb, adequate, superlative
poor, inferior, atrocious, dreadful, inadequate
The answer to this question is B. had planned
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
In this excerpt, the statement that is the best interpretation of this excerpt is
<em>The narrator enjoys the peaceful surroundings of the mountains.</em>
This poem is not about preferences or adventures of any kind. The author wants to project to the reader the feelings that these elements produce on him. He uses the comparative with nature because of the conviction that it never changes.
When He says: "come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill.." and mentions the mythical brotherhood of sun and moon and hollow and wood, and river and stream"
He is using these comparatives to represent the value of the happiness of giving love to another person without limit. It is the purest expression of love.
