Based on the context, the word secluded in paragraph 1 means

each day, the race features a different stage as the racers makes their way around the quiet and secluded french countryside and into some of the country's biggest and most populated cities.

-beautiful

-complicated

-isolated

-mountanious

Consider the last two lines of the poem again. why do you think the old woman sees herself as a terrible fish? why did she choose to compare her to a fish? why do you think she chose to use the word "terrible"? write your answer in two hundred words.

Which three parts of these excerpts reflect the idea that war affects not only the minds of the combatants but also their physical reactions?

[he] let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. a piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. how slowly it appeared to move! what a sluggish stream! what contrasting words are used to describe the stream in this passage?