The tone of the signs quoted in this passage is ___________.

“With the first day of school approaching on Aug. 28, critics of the takeover have grown louder. This month, more than 200 people gathered in protest outside the district’s headquarters. “Houston Occupied School District,” read one sign. “Even prisons have libraries,” read another.”

What word in this passage defines au courant?

"there is a very simple solution to feeling as if your wardrobe dates you, and it is not chasing the next hot (young) thing — or retreating to the frumpy thing. Do not fall into either trap.

In fact, do not think in terms of time periods and their fashion. What is au courant today is passé tomorrow. Rather, think in terms of clothes that are timeless."

Passé means out of date, no longer fashionable. What comes closest to rhyming with it?

"there is a very simple solution to feeling as if your wardrobe dates you, and it is not chasing the next hot (young) thing — or retreating to the frumpy thing. Do not fall into either trap.

In fact, do not think in terms of time periods and their fashion. What is au courant today is passé tomorrow. Rather, think in terms of clothes that are timeless."

You wound a thick turban around your bald head

to hide your age. Why, you’re nearly dead!

The speaker is likely a young woman being courted by an older man. It has satirical tone. What is it ridiculing?

George Washington led settlers to violently rebel against the government. He could be described as a freedom fighter or a terrorist.

Which word sounds more heroic?

Which sounds more desirable, dewy or oily skin?

People always say to me, “Your skin looks so dewy.” In my mind, I just think my skin is oily, not dewy, but are they really that different? I talked to a dermatologist to figure out if my skin is actually dewy or if my suspicions of having oily skin are correct.

Family dinner night, and we are deciding what to save:
polar bears or slipper limpets. Girls in Afghanistan

or the wolf. We can't save everything
but the kids are ready

These stanzas seems to express bona fide concern for saving the world, but the hyperbole suggests the tone is---

In the two-line poem below, does the speaker have an affinity or an aversion to the man who kisses her?

The old goat seized a kiss from my pout

like tearing a piece of fat from a starving dog’s snout.

The tone of this poem, Dream Song 14, John Berryman, is ---

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.  

After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,  

we ourselves flash and yearn,

and moreover my mother told me as a boy  

(repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored  

means you have no

Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no  

inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

Peoples bore me,

literature bores me, especially great literature,  

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