It all began with Effie's getting something in her eye. It hurt very much indeed, and it felt something like a red-hot spark—only it seemed to have legs as well, and wings like a fly. Effie rubbed and cried—not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind—and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out. Effie's father was a doctor, so of course he knew how to take things out of eyes.

When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural—rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious.

Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out." People always say this when they have had something in their eyes.

"Oh, yes—it's out," said the doctor. "Here it is, on the brush. This is very interesting."

Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share in. She said: "What?"

The doctor carried the brush very carefully across the room, and held the point of it under his microscope—then he twisted the brass screws of the microscope, and looked through the top with one eye.

"Dear me," he said. "Dear, dear me! Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." The creature under his eye wriggled a little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a bat-like wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly. Effie, run round to the professor and ask him to be kind enough to step in for a few minutes."

"You might give me sixpence, Daddy," said Effie, "because I did bring you the new specimen. I took great care of it inside my eye, and my eye does hurt."

The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye.

But at teatime another thing happened. Effie's brother Harry fished something out of his tea, which he thought at first was an earwig. He was just getting ready to drop it on the floor, and end its life in the usual way, when it shook itself in the spoon—spread two wet wings, and flopped onto the tablecloth. There it sat, stroking itself with its feet and stretching its wings, and Harry said: "Why, it's a tiny newt!"

The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "I'll give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fast; and then he picked it up carefully on his handkerchief.

"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."

It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long—with scales and wings.

So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to seem less valuable. For the next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and screamed out that he was burnt.

And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.

"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."

And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, because, of course, no one believes in dragons nowadays—and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were only a few, but in a week or two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of bees. They all looked alike except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings were a pale, half-transparent yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles.

Based on the rising action in the bolded paragraphs, what do we know about Daddy?

He is calm and curious.
He is angry and upset.
He is hysterical.
He is uninterested and bored.

Answer:

A. He is calm and curious

Explanation:

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why do we treat strangers differently than our family or loved ones​

What is the tone of this sentence from “The Oldest and Youngest Places on Earth”?

It is unknown whether the earth's youngest island will last for long, but it has already exceeded expectations.


skeptical

optimistic

puzzled

neutral

PART A: Based on the dialogue in paragraphs 4-6, which
inference can the reader make about Fleming's character?

Select the correct answer.
Which of the following is most likely to be useful during a business presentation?

A. A fully written-out speech

B. Images

C. A PowerPoint presentation

D. A sense of humor

In the island of the blue dolphins book chapter 7 why did Karana believe Ramo was on the ship?

Which answer best explains how the participle shrieking is used in this sentence?

Shrieking from the tenth row, the girls were no doubt his biggest fans.


It is used as a noun and serves as the subject of the sentence.


It is used as an adverb to describe the verb were.


It is used as an adjective to describe the noun girls.


It is used as a verb to describe the main action of the sentence.

Read the following lines from the poem. The poet includes these lines most likely to suggest that the speaker —

A does not wish to be pushed on a swing
B wants to deal with the situation alone
C does not often receive help from others
D is not physically strong

1) Which person would MOST likely be able to make a personal connection to the story of John Devine? A) An American who prefers the sound of English accents above any other accent. B) A traveler who, while in Japan, has trouble understanding others' broken English. C) An American who moved to Canada and realized that while the language is the same, people use phrases and words very differently. A bus driver who cannot understand the people D) talking in the back of the bus because they are too quiet to hear from the driver's seat.​

Which detail best supports Cameron's opinion that he was hooked on making things out of metal

Directioners what is something a fake stan had told you or has said i’ll start
Harry only has 3 nipples and
Louis is the one scared of spoons

Complete the sentences about American life many years ago. Use the positive or negative form of used to and the words given.

People got their mail at the town store. They _________ (get) their mail at home.

People ________ (have) washing machines.

Women _______ (make) clothes for their children. They _____ (buy) them in the stores.

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Read the following passage from "Every Man a King":
"Why, ladies and gentleman, let us say that all of these labor-saving devices reduce hours down to where you do not have to work but four hours a day; that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the Lord, if it gets that good. Let it be good and not a curse, and then we will have five hours a day and five days a week, or even less than that, and we might give a man a whole month off during a year, or give him two months; and we might do what other countries have seen fit to do, and what I did in Louisiana, by having schools by which adults could go back and learn the things that have been discovered since they went to school."

Which of these best describes the diction used in this passage?

A. Passionate and dry
B. Unreasonable and frustrated
C. Angry and imprecise
D. Practical and hopeful

Which detail from the excerpt best characterizes Hussain as a cruel man?

Instruction: In a group, read the paragraph about birth order. Complete each sentence with who,
whom, that, or whose. The first one is done for you as an example.
Birth order researchers have discovered some interesting information (1. that 1) can help us
understand our colleagues better. Do you have a difficult boss (2.
----) authoritarian
personality makes your life difficult? If so, your boss might be a firstborn child. Children (3. -----
--- ) are born first are often more authoritarian than their younger siblings. Do you have a
coworker (4.
--) is passive, but particularly creative and insightful? This person may be
a middle child. People (5. ----------) have both older and younger siblings are often passive
because their older siblings were responsible for their well-being when they were young. The
creativity (6.---------------) they exhibit might be the effect of their having spent a lot of time on
their own due to having to share parental attention with their older and younger siblings. People
(7.-------- ------) you work with (8. --- ------) are controlling may be youngest children.
These people are also likely to be more social than co-workers (9.
) are middle​

Can someone help quickly please

Identify the P.A.G.A. used to start the sentence. "Twenty-one years of it." Group of answer choices
Adjective
Gerund
Prepositional Phrase
Adverb

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Which two character types best fit this description of the stepsisters in the fairy tale "Cinderella"? Cinderella’s stepsisters are always mean and cruel toward her. They make her do all of the chores in the house. They also make her help them get ready for the ball, and then they don’t take her along. The stepsisters even try to fool the prince into thinking that the glass slipper, which is Cinderella’s, belongs to them. However, they fail to convince him in the end. protagonist antagonist dynamic static foil

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
Daisy enjoys working in the kitchen.

Summarize The Book Lilly & Dunkin By Donna

Many students graduate from college with
a mountain of student loan debt that must be
paid back. Student loans can range from small
amounts to thousands upon thousands of
dollars. A large amount of debt can be a huge
burden for a young person especially when she
is early in her career and likely not earning too
much money. Our organization is proposing
that a college education should be free for all
young people so that their lives are not
negatively impacted by student loan debt. A free
education is already provided for so many years
(K-12), and we believe that the last 4 years also
be provided
3. Which detall does not make sense to add to the
possage to support the claim?
a. Students are delaying the purchase of their first
home due to student loan debt.
b. 86% of students report that they have made
career sacrifices due to student loan debt.
c. In a study, 1 in 4 adults say they may wait to get
married because they are not financially ready.
d. There are some loan forgiveness programs that
wil reduce student loan debt amounts.

. Consumers depend on plants or other organisms for food. When animals eat plants or other animals vee
does the energy from that food go?

Respond to the following questions, using the information from your research.
What are the "hidden ruląs” for each social or economic class? Do you agree that these
rules are hidden? Why or why not?

Onomatopoeia is the repetition of consonant sounds in words.

Question 2 options:
True
False

What is the best definition for a paragraph's topic sentence? a sentence that begins the paragraph a sentence that helps the reader to organize her thoughts a sentence that tells the reader what will be discussed a sentence that is the first sentence of the paragraph​

“Life is a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Support the given comment with logical arguments.

Write a thesis statement for your argument for why kids should do vollunteer work

Read the passage about the Titanic.

Time and Place of Events during the Sinking of the Titanic
4) 12:45 a.m. – The first rocket is fired.
5) 12:55 a.m. – Fifth Officer Lowe bawls out the head of the steamship line.
6) 12:55 a.m. – Major Peuchen proves a yachtsman can be a seaman.
7) 1:10 a.m. – Mrs. Isidor Straus refuses to leave her husband.
8) 1:20 a.m. – Ben Guggenheim appears in evening clothes to go down like a gentleman.
9) 1:25 a.m. – Steward Ray remembers he persuaded a family to sail on the Titanic.

–A Night to Remember,
Walter Lord

What organizational pattern does the passage follow?

description
chronological
cause and effect
comparison and contrast

Explain the history of the holiday (hanukkah). How did
it get started? (2-3 sentences)

write a short letter to brother asking him not to eat junk food because it is harmful to health​