Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct pronoun-antecedent agreement? a. the teacher, eager to get started on the next assignment, shared colorful clay with her class for decorating his pots. b. every boy on the team, at the last practice of the week, was told to do their best in the basketball game. c. kate's teacher, frustrated by the mess, asked them to put all her books away and take out the art supplies. d. ron and i, after a busy month at work, went to the beach during our last vacation, and both of us had a great time.

What aspect of the room seems to most bother the narrator of the yellow wallpaper

Now you will do a special kind of problem. you will use the blue boxes below to put events of the story "the baby-sitter" in correct order. each blue box has seven sentences inside it. click the first blue box until you see the first thing that happened in the story. then go on to the next box and the next thing that happened. the last thing that happened should be in the last box. you may need to look back at the story to you remember. if you change your mind at any time while you are working the problem, you can return to a box and click to find a different sentence. when you are all finished, you will be able to read down the list of sentences and see all seven events from the story in the right order. mary jo began to read the alphabet book. mary jo couldn't move. mother asked mary jo to baby-sit. jimmy was very quiet. he had fallen asleep. jimmy to read the book. mother said, "you are a very good baby-sitter." mother picked up sleeping jimmy.

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor