Answer:People are horrible at keeping secrets. As in, really, really bad at it (no matter what anyone may tell you to the contrary). And you know what? We’re right to be. Just like the two Rhesus Macaques in the picture above, we have an urge to spill the beans when we know we shouldn’t—and that urge is a remarkably healthy one. Resist it, and you may find yourself in worse shape than you’d bargained for. And the secreter the secret, the worse the backlash on your psyche will likely be.
I never much cared for Nathaniel Hawthorne. I first dreaded him when my older sister came home with a miserable face and a 100-pound version of The House of the Seven Gables. I felt my anxiety mount when she declared the same hefty tome unreadable and said she would rather fail the test than finish the slog. And I had a near panic attack when I, now in high school myself, was handed my own first copy of the dreaded Mr. H.
Now, I’ve never been one to judge books by size. I read War and Peace cover to cover long before Hawthorne crossed my path and finished A Tale of Two Cities (in that same high school classroom) in no time flat. But it was something about him that just didn’t sit right. With trepidation bordering on the kind of dread I’d only ever felt when staring down a snake that I had mistaken for a tree branch, I flipped open the cover.
Luckily for me, what I found sitting on my desk in tenth grade was not my sister’s old nemesis but The Scarlet Letter. And you know what? I survived. It’s not that the book became a favorite. It didn’t. And it’s not that I began to judge Hawthorne less harshly. After trying my hand at Seven Gables—I just couldn’t stay away, could I; I think it was forcibly foisted on all Massachusetts school children, since the house in question was only a short field trip away—I couldn’t. And it’s not that I changed my mind about the writing—actually, having reread parts now to write this column, I’m surprised that I managed to finish at all (sincere apologies to all Hawthorne fans). I didn’t.
But despite everything, The Scarlet Letter gets one thing so incredibly right that it almost—almost—makes up for everything it gets wrong: it’s not healthy to keep a secret.
I remember how struck I was when I finally understood the story behind the letter – and how shocked at the incredibly physical toll that keeping it secret took on the fair Reverend Dimmesdale. It seemed somehow almost too much. A secret couldn’t actually do that to someone, could it?
Explanation:
Answer:
HAIKU:
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
DIAMONTE: (make sure you put it in the appropriate format for a diamonte poem-- center the format)
Monsters
Evil, Spooky
Howling, Shrieking, Wailing
Ghosts, Vampires, Goblins, Witches
Flying, Scaring, Terrifying
Creepy, Crawly
Creatures
Explanation:
1. repeat initial consonant sound = alliteration
Alliteration and consonance are both figures of speech in which the author chooses to repeat consonants within neighboring words, but the difference is that in alliteration, the initial consonant is repeated, whereas in consonance, the final consonant is repeated.
2. like - night = slant rhyme
Slant rhyme is a type of imperfect rhyme. It means that similar sounds are used instead of the same sounds in two or more words which are supposed to rhyme, like in the case of like and night. You can see that they do sound similarly, but not the same.
3. repeat final consonant sound = consonance
Read the explanation I wrote for 1.
4. sound effects = onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech used to imitate sounds you can hear in nature or anywhere around you. So, for example, if you say the words <em>jingle, mew, baa, buzz, boom, </em>etc, you are imitating sounds that can be heard, and that is onomatopoeia.
5. repeat vowel sounds = assonance
As opposed to alliteration and consonance, where consonants are repeated in neighboring words, assonance is a figure of speech authors use when they want to repeat the same vowel in neighboring words. For example, in words <em>lie:side:bride, </em>the same vowel (i) is repeated.
6. ball - fall = true rhyme
Unlike slanted rhyme, where similar sounds are used, when it comes to true rhyme, sounds which sound the same are used. As you can see, in words <em>ball </em>and <em>fall, </em>only one sound differs, and that is the initial sound (B and F), but everything else is the same, which is why these words rhyme.
Usually, a hotel receptionist greets customers or visitors and escort them to specific destinations...
So, I think it's:
"A hotel receptionist greeted a <u><em>customer</em></u><em> </em>or <u><em>visitor</em></u>."
Hope I helped :)
Answer: Humanity's need for expedition and adventure has allowed people to reach and explore even the farthest points on the planet.
Explanation:
The idea that is common to both texts is that humanity's need for expedition and adventure has allowed people to reach and explore even the farthest points on the planet.
The fear of the unknown, the thrill of doing something that one hasn't done before, the excitement and euphoria of trying something new and different are simply some of the reasons human beings like adventure.
Humans have always been known to explore and try out something different. From visiting other planets to going to space, humans have always loved the thrill and this isn't stopping anytime soon.
