what type of figurative language is used in this excerpt
"he was a shoulder who had given up before the war begun"​

Answer:

metaphor

Explanation:

It uses the word "was" when describing

Answer:

Hyperbole

Explanation:

HELP!! Which sentence in this excerpt from Anton Chekhov's The Proposal best reveals the setting of the play?

The signal words due to, because, as a result, since, if, then, consequently, and therefor indicate what type of internal text structure?
a main idea support
b sequence
c problem solution
d cause and effect
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Read this excerpt from "Marine Mammals.”

Marine mammals are classified into four different groups: cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and marine fissipeds (polar bears and sea otters)

–"Marine Mammals,"
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Which best describes how the author’s use of classification helps to guide the reader’s understanding?

A.It provides details about marine mammals.
B.It is used to define the types of marine mammals.
C.It divides the larger topic of marine mammals into smaller parts.
D.It allows the author to provide a description of each type of marine mammal.

There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition. Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for him I have offended! What describes the structure of the excerpt above best?

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what house do the fireman go to in fahrenheit 451?

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List 3 similarities between Scrooge from A Christmas Carol and the Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Read the sentence
Sarai discovered the some of the materials she tested were malleable enough to serve as springs for her robot.
What type of context clue can you use to determine the meaning of malleable?

Identify at least three central ideas expressed by Thoreau in this essay, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For."

Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason." The pages of the scrapbook were filled with clippings from newspapers, and they were all about Billy Mason and his team—the games they played and the plays he made. At the very end there was an article about Billy himself, how he was hardworking and courageous and how, in his rookie year, he was injured in a home-plate collision. He held onto the ball, won the game, and never played again. He took one for the team. Billy closed the scrapbook. This was his father's scrapbook, left here in his grandmother’s house. Catcher Billy Mason was his father's hero. He had given his son his hero’s name as a kind of legacy. Billy held the scrapbook in his hands as he went downstairs to have his first real conversation with Grandma M. Compared with Billy, Billy's father would have most likely reacted to finding the scrapbook by becoming angry. proud. scared. anxious.

Read this excerpt from We Beat the Street.

Thinking back to that presentation in the library makes me smile. What started out as three high school boys skipping class turned out to be the most significant event in our lives. If we had made it to the gym that day instead of the library, more than likely the streets would have swallowed us in the next few years. We never would have become doctors.

What effect does the Seton Hall presentation have on the three friends’ lives?

It puts them on the path to becoming doctors.
It makes them feel truly happy for the first time.
It helps them remember what is important in life.
It changes their feelings about high school.

(1) If you see someone lonely or sad you will - ​

My favorite flower is the rose. The predicate noun in this sentence is...​

Write a reflection about the pandemic that we are facing. Use transition signals.

Write a 5 Paragraph Essay on “How people can learn to be kinder to one another”.

what does amiable mean

Read the excerpts from Team Moon and the NASA article. A reader can best combine the information in the excerpts to O understand the relief felt by the Grumman folks at Mission control when the lunar module was safely on the moon. And only now a solid, panic-stricken, gut-wrenching, heart-palpitating ten minutes by clock but feeling like an eternity later—did it sink in for John Coursen, Tom Kelly, and a lot of the other Grumman folks who had poured years of their lives into building the lunar module: Their baby was on the moon. Let the cheering begin! o understand what Aldrin and Armstrong did for two and half hours after landing the lunar module on the moon. Aldrin joins (Armstrong] shortly, and offers a simple but powerful description of the lunar surface: "magnificent desolation. They explore the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and taking photographs. o understand the thrill of the lunar module's landing from both the perspectives of mission control and the astronauts. Ol understand the moon landing from the perspectives of people watching the events unfold on their home televisions.​

What is the genre that "The gift of the Magi" falls under?"
poetry
drama
non-fiction
fiction

Teo the hot headed badminton player charged his opponent and tried to attack him with his tiny racket.

What other skill can you combine with your knowledge of Greek and Latin word parts to understand a word you’ve never seen before?

rereading the passage

pronunciation

using context clues

summarizing

What divides us as human beings?

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From the third stanza, we can conclude that the
speaker
A. envies the bird for its freedom.
B. has found hope in hard situations.
C.is very generous and giving to others.
O is an adventurer and enjoys excitement.

How might we correct the sentence below? (37)

I ran to the store and bought some milk.

A. I ran to the store, and bought some milk.

B. I ran to the store; and bought some milk.

C. I ran to the store yet bought some milk.

D. Leave the sentence as it is.

What does he accomplish by including references to these other texts?

In Passage 2, how does the phrase "the prize we sought is won" communicate a tone that is different from the
tone of the passage as a whole?

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What is a common theme that Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado" share?
A. alcoholism
B. feminism
C. friendship
D. revenge
E. destiny