Manuel took the three rabbits and carried them away to the mountains. He was very sad. "Oh!" he said. "If I set these rabbits free here, how will I find them again?"
—“Manuel Had a Riddle,”
Virginia Hamilton
Which statement best describes the author’s characterization of Manuel in this excerpt?

- The author uses only direct characterization to show that Manuel is worried about the rabbits.
- The author uses indirect characterization by describing Manuel as “sad.”
- The author directly characterizes Manuel as sad and indirectly characterizes him as worried.
- The author describes Manuel and the rabbits using direct and indirect characterization.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

What is the effect of the haiku structure on this poem?   how does the line structure describe the subject(s)?   and how does a haiku compare to a rhyming and longer poem in terms of its effect on you as a reader?

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