Read the sentence from "Black Hole Beginnings." As more stuff gathers, its combined gravitation grows stronger. What question should readers ask to determine the effect in the sentence? How much stuff is combined? Where does the stuff gather? Why does the gravitation grow stronger? What happens when more stuff gathers?

Which of the following sentences most clearly uses topical organization? a. do you have problems with mosquitoes and gnats? fabulous exterminators can ! b. we've gathered at this conference to discuss three things: poverty, war, and disease. c. killer bees have spread up from south america into mexico and the united states. d. first, gather all the painting supplies you need. next, lay them out on a work bench.

Excerpted from "the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow 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! look carefully at the lines above. a poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read a. line by line. b. with long pauses. c. phrase by phrase. d. with a strong rhythm.

This dust was once the manthis dust was once the man,gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,was saved the union of these states walt whitman who is "the man" the dust now represents? the narrator a criminal whitman lincoln