FR LAST 2 QUESTIONs WILL GIVE BRANLIET PLS HELP I REALLY COULD USE THE HELP 9. Why would some people describe Carl Sandburg as a "regional" poet?
A) He never left his home state during his lifetime.
B) He wrote mostly about the Midwest and its people.
C) He only dedicated part of his career to poetry.
D) He wanted to celebrate America as a whole in all of his works.

11. Review the poem "Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes. Which thought is implied by the poem's first four lines?

To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.

A) Salvation is possible only through dedication to God's work.
B) The days seemed especially long in Harlem during the summer.
C) Dance and music are the purest and most sophisticated expressions.
D) Living under racial oppression restricts a person's opportunities for joy.

What is the main idea of this paragraph

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

How does the author create a surprise ending? cite evidence from the text to support your answer.