What do the abbreviations after a word in the dictionary tell you about the word?

a. The pronunciation

b. The part of speech

c. The tense

d. the word's origin

What does evocative diction mean?

If Shakespeare didn't like revenge tragedies why did he continue to write them

What literary form is "Then the air left his lungs and seemed to take all hope with it?

Riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit America's largest national park - Wrangell St Elias - 13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska.

Which selection from the section "Slowing The Spread" BEST explains what epidemiologists mean by "flattening the curve"?

Some critics have suggested that oedipus's answer to the sphinx's riddle was incomplete--that the answer should have been not just man but oedipus himself--and that oedipus was as ignorant of the whole truth here as he is when he says his curse in

2) Which BEST explains the effect of the first 10 lines of this poem? Readers realize that the speaker is having a flashback Readers recognize that the speaker misses his childhood. Readers sense that the speaker is overwhelmed by advertisements.

Which scenario would show an example of situational irony? Portia does not believe that Brutus is telling the truth when he tells her he is simply ill. Brutus lies to Portia about his health, knowing that he is fine.

Create a paraphrase of the following sentence from "The Cold Equations:" She belonged in that world of soft winds and warm suns, music and moonlight and gracious manners and not on the hard, bleak frontier.

The new social studies teacher who will also coach the tennis team. a. Sentence b. Fragment