Which sentence in the passage is an example of an oxymoron?
linda was worried sick because her assignment was due tomorrow and she was far from being done. she knew she couldn’t ask her teacher for another extension, so she was spending her friday at the library. the third floor of the library was reserved for quiet study, but linda was overwhelmed with a sense of deafening silence. it was hard for linda to concentrate, but she needed to focus in order to get this assignment done.

Match each description to the correct poetic form. sometimes consists of three 1)stages: lament, praise, and consolation 2)a type of lyrical poem 3)a poem that was originally meant to be sung 4) a poem written to pay tribute to someone who has died match to: ode elegy

Excerpt from saving the thrift store: a dramalee washington2rosa: eddie, i don’t recognize the shirt you’re wearing. when did you get it? 3louis: it doesn’t look as disheveled as the soccer shirts you wear all the time.4eddie: well, i’m not going to tiptoe through the soccer field to keep my clothes neat. (louis playfully aims a soccer ball at eddie. rosa deflects it.)5rosa: what i was trying to say is that the shirt looks really good. (louis wanders over to the morning newspaper that is still sitting on the front lawn. he leafs through it while eddie and rosa talk.) in line 5, which point is rosa making when she says eddie’s shirt looks good? a) the store must have new merchandise. b) rosa is jealous of eddie’s new shirt. c) eddie must have done his own laundry. d) eddie often wears old, tattered shirts.

Choose the sentence that is not logically connected in the paragraph. (1) one final effect of radio and tv on the language must must be noted. (2) there is no doubt that these great media of information have cut down considerably the time that used to be devoted to reading. (3) radio and tv may enhance the spoken word. (4) they tend to lower comprehension levels.