Putrenkevitch states, "For a spider to change its web is as impossible as for an inexperienced man to build a bridge across a charm obstructing his way." What two things are being compared using as (simile) ?

Read this dialogue. May: My piano recital is next week. It's too soon! I haven't perfected the piece yet, and I don't have anything appropriate to wear. Mother: Oh, no! That is soon. Which night? May: Thursday night at the cultural arts center.

In " I Am Offering This Poem", Jimmy Santiago Baca uses the simile "like a pair of thick socks / the cold cannot bite through." What does the simile show he wants for the poem's subject?

Describe a few characteristics of Modern literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from either Crane's "The Bride Comes to yellow Sky," Yeats' "Second Coming," Frost's "Death of a Hired Man," or

What is most likely Betty Smith purpose in writing the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Read these sentences from "The Story of Daedalus and Icarus" by Ovid . At last he saw the feathers floating on the water. "Ill-fated arts!" he lamented, wishing he had never possessed the skill to allow them to fly.

I saw it, and told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court: and now has he land and beefs.

Which of the following was NOT a reason Wordsworth wrote "Preface to Lyrical Ballads?" A. an introduction to lyric poetry B. a systematic defens C. a manifesto D. a prose

What plays an important role in AIC idea of social class

Which statement best describes the impact of rhetorical techniques in this excerpt?

To Possess again would be to _Possess.