What is the central idea of a text is supported by? Check all that apply.

1. analogies

2. attitudes

3. anecdotes

4. examples

5. extremes

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? Winter was cruel; it did not listen to the peasants. Select one of the options below as your answer: a. metaphor b. personification c. alliteration d. hyperbole

In act iv, scene v, when friar lawrence enters, he says, "come, is the bride ready to go to church?" why is this line dramatically ironic?

What would be the effect of having a child narrate versus an adult to narrate? For example, Angela's Ashes was narrated by a child so what would be altered if it was an adult instead looking back?

Correct any fragments in the following sentence. During the nineteenth and early twenties centuries. Graduates of state university played a key a role in America's development as an industrial and economic power.

Read the following excerpt from "Homecoming." Atsidi stood just outside his family's hogan in the heat of the early morning air and looked out across the vast landscape of shrubs that peppered the flat land of the reservation.

In Chapter 3, why is the farmer beating his servant? a. The servant tried to run away with Don Quixote. b. The servant stole money from the farmer. c. The servant insulted the farmer's home and family. d.

Which punctuation mark is used when spelling out compound numbers between 21 and 99? a. Dash b. Colon c. Period d. Hyphen

How does the narrator in "Exhalation" most clearly change from the beginning to the end of the story? A) at first, he rebels against his scientific colleagues but at the end he works with them.

6. Which one of the following pieces of writing would you be most likely to believe as true? A. A letter to the editor of a newspaper in which a citizen explains the dangerous condition of a public building. B.

When referring to human language, prevarication refers to?