Wordworth's poetry belonged to the . His poetry still inspires us today. One of his most iconic poems is "The Prelude." It is said that he loved taking walks with his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, and those inspired his works. The Lyrical Ballads, which were written in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, remain one of the most important texts of the .

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Identify an example of an epic simile in book 13, book 21, or book 24 of the odyssey and explain how it is different from a typical simile.

What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.