Read these passages from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio.
"Spanish Flu Mystery May Be Solved!"
A team of scientists has solved an 87-year-old mystery. The cause of the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 40 to 50 million people,
has finally been identified.
"People Observe World AIDS Day!"
More than 25 million people worldwide have died of the AIDS pandemic since 1981. And nearly 40 million more now live with
the disease.
By contrasting the success in identifying the Spanish flu with the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS, the author
proposes shifting from Spanish flu research to AIDS research.
implies that a breakthrough for AIDS is also possible.
states that AIDS will also be cured within 100 years.
recommends solving AIDS in the same way the flu was solved.

Select the correct answer. during which stage of the active reading strategy would you identify the theme of a story? a. a = ask questions. b. c = create connections. c. t = track down important information. d. i = make inferences. e. v = visualize. f. e = eureka! combine information.

The purpose of using personification in the excerpt is to show how? enrique’s journey.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification