She gets to be brothers when she plays basketball.
2
A
According to the narrator, why is basketball “as good as Shakespeare” (lines 16 and 17)?
It connects her to important people.
B It helps her to understand her life.
C It has the power to strongly affect her.
D It helps her deal with disappointments in life.
3
Based on lines 20 through 29, what can readers conclude about the narrator's father?
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What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from longfellow's, "the tide rises, the tide falls? " (10 points) the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveler hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls.

What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.