Read the excerpt from Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." The ugly words settled in Mr. Shiftlet's head like a group of buzzards in the top of a tree. The simile in this excerpt compares Mr. Shiftlet to a group of buzzards. the ugly words to the top of the tree. a group of buzzards to the top of a tree. the ugly words to a group of buzzards.
I JUST DID IT, D
Explanation:
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After analyzing the simile in the excerpt, we can say it compares the following:
D. The ugly words to a group of buzzards.
What is a simile?A simile is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two different things is made. Similes always rely on words such as "like" and "as" to make the comparison.
In the excerpt, the simile compares two things to other two different things:
Ugly words are compared to a group of buzzardsMr. Shiflet's head is compared to the top of a treeSince letter D is the only option that presents one of those two possibilities, it is the correct answer.
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describe the effect of blank verse in the poem how would the poem be different if frost had used a rhyming form?
Answer:
^^^^^^^^The use of blank verse makes the poem sound like everyday speech. Blank verse’s regular meter gives the poem a sense of structure and stability. If the poem had a rhyme scheme, it would not sound like people were talking normally. If the poem had a rhyme scheme, the rhyme might be distracting to the reader. Rhyme schemes can sound artificial.
Explanation:
Right on e d g e n u i t y
Answer:
Fitst person is right
Explanation:
got it right on edge
Which two parts highlight the psychological consequences of war?
Answer:
Quit
Explanation:
Nin
Write down Questions about why you in particular do something that u do-
We want what we do to matter
He sold many oranges (Passive voice )
Tell us a time when you helped someone. Describe how your support impacted the other person and how it made it made you feel.
Why is it important to know that the play is a tragedy before seeing it? Romeo and Juliet
the Prologue does not merely set the scene of Romeo and Juliet , it tells the audience exactly what is going to happen in the play. ... But the Prologue itself creates this sense of fate by providing the audience with the knowledge that Romeo and Juliet will die even before the play has begun
What is the indirect object in the sentence?
I sent her a postcard about my trip.
1. All his information ..... wrong. (was, are, were)
Answer:
well makes more sense with "was" tbh.
All his information "was" wrong.
Explanation:
Read this excerpt from "The Savoy."
Answer:
The answer is B.
Explanation:
The excerpt shows that the narrator is very embarrassed.
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In which underlined adjective clause is the relative pronoun used as the object of a preposition?
a The part of Alaska that is within the Arctic Circle is cold most of the year.
b The explorer whom I met last year has never been to the North Pole.
c The climate is one in which little foliage can grow.
d I saw a dog whose sled left without him.
Answer:
D would be answer I guess
Read the information in the brainstorming table.
Beginning: First, I signed up to audition for a part in the school play. Middle: Then I recited my lines and sang a short solo for the chorus teacher. End: Blank.
Which piece of information best completes the table?
Every year, the students in our school put on a spring performance.
Finally, the chorus teacher announced there would be a school play.
Then I chose a song and prepared for my audition.
Finally, I was selected for a leading role in the play.
Answer: is d
Explanation:
Fren bought groceries that cost $14.40 .She paid the store clerk, Ping,with a $20 bill. Ping makes change by saying. 2 pennies make the total $14.40 . 6 dimes makes it $15.00 ,and 6 dollars makes it $20 .
Answer:
D. yes, ping should give five one dollar bills, not six
Explanation:
Given data is
Fren bought groceries.
The groceries cost = $14.40
She paid to ping (clerk) = $20
hence, the money should give by ping to fern is = $20 - $14.40 = $5.6
two pennies make the total of $14.40 which is true.
six dimes makes $15 this is also true.
six dollars makes $20 this is false.
Since $15 + $6 = $21 which is not equal to $20.
'Her angry words were bullets to him'. The comparison of angry words to bullets here is a ____________________. *
Answer:
metaphor
Explanation:
Metaphors compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as," unlike similes. Angry words and bullets are being compared without "like" or "as," making it a metaphor.
Which are traits of a free verse poem? Check all that apply.
O a clear pattern of rhyming words
| lines that vary greatly in length
no set number of lines per stanza
an established meter and rhythm
a pattern for stressing syllables
Answer:
lines that vary greatly in lengthno set number of lines per stanzaExplanation:
Free verse doesn't rhyme or have a regular meter and tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech with no particular pattern of stressing syllables.
Answer:
B. lines that vary greatly in length. C. no set number of lines per stanza.
Explanation:
took the quiz on edge
3. Do you think that sports officials must be fit and healthy in officiating
games? Why?
Answer:
yes
Explanation:
coz sports are going to help our body being healthy by the toxic get out from our body when we sweating
what does "the peom is structured around an implied contrast" mean
Answer:
that would just mean the content of whatever poem you are studying is either paradoxical or displays 2 different ideas that prove or emphasise the message.
Three major events happen in one day: a Republican politician makes a statement about immigration, a Democratic politician makes a statement about immigration, and a protest group makes a statement about immigration. The producers of the KRSTZ radio program choose to cover only one of these stories. What kind of bias do they show?
inevitable bias
bias by omission and bias by arrangement
bias by omission
unintentional bias
It depends completely on what the events were, so there is not enough information to tell.
Answer:
inevitable bias
Explanation:
no matter what they did its going to be viewed as some kind of bias
n a feeding frenzy, the pigeons descended upon the breadcrumbs that the kindly old man on the park bench continued to toss.
Which is a correct analysis of the sentence?
Answer:
the pigieons are being nice
Explanation:
c
I am confused on this question pls tell me someone :)
Answer:
Just answer the question and try to remember what you've learned
Explanation:
11.
(adverb) My sister answered the question intelligently.
What is the adverb
Answer:
intelligently is the adverb
How does Machiavelli work to achieve his secondary purpose—to inform his readers?
Answer:
He explains that principalities don't know how to rule themselves. He describes the steps people take when they join rebellions. He describes the emotions of people in a conquered republic.
Explanation:
hope this helps, i just looked it up.
Which country is the island of Socotra part of? from text
Answer:
Yemen
Explanation:
Socotra sits at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, only 60 miles from the horn of Africa. Politically it is governed by Yemen, some 230 miles to the north. Geographical isolation has sculpted Socotra in its unique form.
How does the cousin believe the country was affected by the decision to have an open casket funeral?
Answer:
sorry I don't know the answer
Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,
Leaping like leopards to the sky,
Then at the feet of the old horizon
Laying her spotted face, to die;
Stooping as low as the kitchen window,
Touching the roof and tinting the barn,
Kissing her bonnet to the meadow,-
And the juggler of day is gone!
What is personified in this poem?
Answer:
The Sun is being personified in the poem.
The sun....(shine) by day.
present simple
Answer:
shining
Explanation:
HEY CAN ANYONE PLS ANSWER DIS!!!
Answer:
It was like old times again. Just me and my bestfriend who I hadn't seen in 5 years. Talking about how much are lives have changed over the years. We start to realize that we don't really have that much in common anymore, we both have new jobs, live in new places, new friends. Its just not the same as when we finished college. Eventually we both get tired of talking about our lives so we finish up and go home, not knowing that would be the last day we ever talked again.
Answer:
it all started when i picked up the wrong suitcase. I had no idea then I had the wrong suitcase. It looked exactly like mine. as I picked up the suitcase I walked to the car line and waited for my parents. as I was standing at the car line i started to smell something so disgusting I was going to jump right back on that plane i came off of. I started to investigate the smell in the air. I walked around and sniffed the security guard as he looked at me funny. was it him that had that rancid smell? nope! it felt like the smell was just following me around. it was a little breezy so I thought it would be the trash can by the entrance of the airport. I secretly smelled the trash can. it was for sure stinky but it was definitely not it. I saw my parents finally pull up. I put my suitcase in the car and hurried in the car to get away from that smell! as I was sitting in the car I smelled the stinky, rancid, horribly smell again! I thought id never get away from this smell. As we pulled over to find out what the smell was me and my parents went to my suitcase and took a big sniff. OOH BOY! did that suitcase smell bad, and it was for sure the stinky smell I was smelling. I decided to open the suitcase and as I was opening it I was so scared what the smell could be that was in here. I finally opened the suitcase and i was so disgusted, and confused to find out this wasnt my suitcase. this was someone elses suitcase! in this suitcase had dirty underwear, and dirty socks! it was so grows! I wanted to barf. I went to the lost and found and quickly dropped it off and ran back to the car and left.
Explanation:
**WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST PLEASE HELP**
- flakes of cold snow drifting slowly
- In sequence to make the ground
- their permanent residence
**what poetic device is used by saying the ground is the snow’s ‘permanent residence’
metaphor?
explanation :
i think its metaphor because ur not really personifying it but ur saying its something that it isnt so i think it is metaphor
Which fact from the Tinker v. Des Moines court decision best supports the
reasoning that the conduct of the student protesters was protected by the
Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits deprivation of life, liberty, or
property?
Which fact from the Tinker v. Des Moines court decision best supports the reasoning that the conduct of the student protesters was protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits deprivation of life, liberty, or
property?
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A. The record shows that students in some of the schools wore
buttons relating to national political campaigns, and some even
wore the Iron Cross, traditionally a symbol of Nazism.
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B. On the other hand, the Court has repeatedly emphasized the need
for affirming the comprehensive authority of the States and of
school officials, consistent with fundamental constitutional
safeguards, to prescribe and control conduct in the schools.
C. The action of the school authorities appears to have been based
on an urgent wish to avoid the controversy which might result
from the expression, even by the silent symbol of armbands, of
opposition to this nation's part in the conflagration in Vietnam.
D. That they are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of Constitutional freedoms of the individual if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere
platitudes.
Answer:
D. That they are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of Constitutional freedoms of the individual. if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes
Explanation:
The Tinker vs Des Moines Independent Community School District case which was decided by the Supreme Court ruled that the students' use of armbands represented free speech to and was not bound by the actions of the people that participated in it.
It also ruled that the school could not alienate their constitutional rights as the actions of the students in no way substantially interfere with the operation of the school.
Which of these is an example of flashback in the passage? A. Ali disappearing among the people in the science fair B. Jade not speaking a single dialogue in the passage C. Ali commenting on the fact that Sai is very smart D. Sai thinking about her first science experiment
Answer:
D. Sai thinking about her first science experiment
