COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Nellie Bly wants to access a "mad-house" from which other people would want to escape. Imagine that the
speaker of "Sympathy” is an inmate being wrongly held there and that
Bly conducts an interview with the inmate. Write a brief account as Bly
might for her newspaper. Be sure to show the contrasts between the
two situations, relying on evidence from both texts.

What was the main idea or message taught by the ballad, "king john and the abbot of canterbury"?

Match each stanza structure to the correct term. a stanza of two lines quatrain a stanza of four lines octave a stanza of six lines couplet a stanza of eight lines sestet arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

Write a five-minute oral presentation about the call of the wild, writing for an audience of your peers. what did you find most fascinating or interesting about the story, and what did you think were its most important points? include one visual element to support your ideas; this may be a short slideshow. then, make small changes to your speech to adapt it to be presented to a formal audience. enter both versions of your speech (informal and formal) in the space below, and include your selected visual element. if possible, present your speech to an audience to receive feedback.