Excerpt from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: Which statement Best interprets the author's use of figurative language in the underlined sentence on page 2 of Passage 2? ​

Answer: shoppers are careful with selection

Explanation: “stating wildly upon the ravages fancy goods counter”

The statement that  Best interprets the author's use of figurative language is shoppers are more careful with their selections.

What is figurative language?

Figurative language intends to create an image or effect in the mind of the reader or listener beyond the literal meaning of the words or their expected use.

The use of figurative language makes the writings or speech more engaging, expressive,  and attractive. It uses different figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, personification and so on.

In the given excerpt, writer uses the sentence "struct plush face staring wildly" to point that after Christmas, shoppers are careful with their spending and selections.

Hence the correct option is C.

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4. Driving in the city during the evening rush hour.
A. fragment
b.Sentence

The snarling dog placed himself between his master and the angry
postman. *
Is this internal or external conflict?

how do workers earn money?​

Which quotation from "The Story of the Fisherman” in The Arabian Nights Entertainments supports the theme that cleverness trumps wrath?

A. “Vexed with having such a bad haul, when he had mended his nets, which the carcas of the as$ had broken in several places, he threw them a second time.”
B. “‘O Fortune,’ he cried, ‘do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!’”
C. “At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would k!ll him at once.”
D. “That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? I cannot believe it unless I see you do the thing.”

That winter, it was cold almost every day. I walked to school in the
snow and warmed myself up by creating dance steps along the way.
One day, an older woman stuck her head out of a storefront. The sign
on the store's awning read "Dance Studio in large black letters. "You're
pretty good," she told me. "You could be great." In that moment, I was a
newborn baby, seeing the world for the first time.
Biography of George Benjamin
The dancer George Benjamin did not discover his talent for me
until he was 15. This was later than most of his peers. Most of ti
had been dancing since they were old enough to walk. A chance
encounter with an elderly ballerina introduced him to formal dance
training. From that moment, he was hooked.
Which sentence best explains the main difference in the way the two
passages use a literary device?


A. The memoir uses a traditional chronological structure, while the
biography uses foreshadowing to suggest what is to come.
B. The memoir uses descriptive imagery to set the scene visually,
while the biography relies on a metaphor to summarize the events
from George's perspective.
C. The memoir uses a metaphor to emphasize the emotional effect
of the encounter on George, while the biography focuses on
comparing George with others.
D. The memoir uses personification to set the scene, while the
biography relies on similes to accomplish the same goal

which statement is most accurate about how the authors of “Harun al-Rashid & one Thousand and one nights” and “The story of baba Abdalla” present the events of middle eastern folktales?

- INVISIBLE MAN
According to the text what is the cause of the narrators invisibility?

EMERGENCY QUICK! PLEASE HELP WITH MY QUESTIONS! 1. What are some advantages of James Hurst deciding to have Brother as the narrator?

2.What if the story was written from the parents' perspective? What changes in tone and mood would we see then?

3. If you were to re-write the tragic Doodle scene from Old Woman Swamp's point of view, what details would you include?

truth is on the side of the oppressed quote meaning

Read the fragment below and then choose the correct revision of that fragment.
6. The politician, whom I used to like. (1 point)
On television, the politician whom I used to like.
The politician in the recent election whom I used to like.
Catering to everyone's wishes, the politician I used to like.
The politician, whom I used to like, made many promises.

Make a sentence from the words By the time.

Explain how the following quote applies to the text above. What is the "fish"?
What is the "fishing rod"?
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime."

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Which statements are examples of logos? Select two options.
The number of individuals who experience identity theft is up 25 percent from the previous year.
It is cruel and inhumane to make people work in buildings with no air conditioners during the summer.
It is our duty and responsibility to make sure that we leave the world a better place for future generations.
As a neurologist, I advise people to consider taking 30-minute breaks every hour to help with work fatigue.
In a new poll, it was determined that 34 percent of people on the West Coast do not watch any type of sport.

Which is the best summary of the following text?
It happens way too often: oil leaking from wells beneath the ocean or tankers spilling their cargo into the waves. One disaster in the Gulf of
Mexico, called the Tyler spill, has been leaking hundreds of barrels of oil per day into the ocean for the past 14 years. That safety should be a
higher priority is a no-brainer. But something can be done to clean up oil spills - something that doesn't involve pouring chemical cleanup
agents into our already fouled waters. And yet the oil industry has not embraced this smart, safe method.
(1 point)
A)Oil spills occur too frequently.
B) The oil industry should promptly handle oil spills with a chemical clean-up process.
C) The oil industry needs to work more efficiently.
D)Oil spills are an ongoing problem that can be improved in a smart and safe manner.

springboard english grade 10

Fix the following incorrect possessives.

6. mattress’ springs
7. peoples’ preference

Which sentence is in the conditional mood?

Darren wished that he could get on the baseball team.

Jude wanted to meet up with his old friends.

Lisa would decide to never come to that holiday party again

If Rebecca won the lottery she could pay her tuition easily .

I need help thank you

what properties are used to describe images formed by mirrors and lenses

Who is Rosalie? *

Kenya's mother

Starr's aunt

Khali's grandmother

Seven's teacher


The Hate You Give Quiz (ch. 1-3) For those who have read the book can help me please!

Which is a true statement about research writing?

“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is a classic story of good vs. evil. In such a story, the characters that drive the plot are the hero and the villain. In this particular story, Nag and Nagaina are portrayed as the villains. Do you think that Nag and Nagaina truly represent evil, or have they been unfairly cast as villains? Choose a side, and then write a brief response that explains your position. Use evidence from the text to support your points.

HAVE ANY OF YALL READ SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES FROM THE HUNGER GAMES?? *answer if u have*

Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. How does the figurative language in this excerpt reveal Collins’s message?

Which of the following inferences about Pauline is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 3)?

She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen. There at last were the darkened woods, the lonely roads, the river banks, the gentle knowing eyes. There the flawed became whole, the blind sighted, and the lame and halt threw away their crutches. There death was dead, and people made every gesture in a cloud of music. There the black-and-white images came together, making a magnificent whole – all projected through the ray of light from above and behind.

It was really a simple pleasure, but she learned all there was to love and all there was to hate.
Answer choices for the above question

A. She prefers black-and-white films to color ones.

B. She wishes to go to the movies more often.

C. The movies are her emotional education which she applies to her dealings with the world.

D. In her time, much of the country had separate areas and facilities for blacks and whites.

Where was Peak headed? Why?

Which option is most clearly a theme?
O A. Two brothers fight on opposite sides of a war.
O B. Raindrops fell like spears thrown by angry clouds.
O C. Home is a place all people carry inside them.
O D. Lightning crashes. The scene fades to black.

What would be one advantage of reading this scene as opposed to watching or listening to it? Readers do not have to worry about visualizing the characters’ appearances. Readers can creatively interpret and visualize stage directions in their minds. Readers do not have to imagine the sounds that accompany characters’ actions. Readers can focus on the words, rather than the actions, of the characters.

Word Problems
1. If there is a current of 15 amperes in a circuit for 10 minutes, what quantity of electric
charge flows through the circuit?

Which of the following is a run-on sentence?

Roll the chilled dough into small balls and place them on a greased cookie sheet use a floured fork to press them flat and then bake for 10 minutes.

Add the sliced apples to the melted butter and cook until tender, but do not let them brown.

Knead the dough for about 8 minutes before dividing it into two loaves; let the loaves rise, covered, until they double in size.

Put the milk, orange juice, strawberries, sliced banana, yogurt, and honey into a blender, and mix on slow speed until the mixture is smooth.