What type of figurative language is used? "He was a soldier who had given up / before the war began."

A. Metaphor

B. Personification

C. Hyperbole

D. Simile

Read these lines from Fredrick Douglass's speech "What to The Slave Is the Fourth of July?" I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them.

Text with the comparative or superlative ... everyone would feel_?_ (close) to each other.

In which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject

If you had to teach someone a lesson you've learned from failure, what would you teach and why?

The three main functions of the digestive system are blank blank and blank

What important contribution did Tristram Shandy make to the novel?

During a group discussion about using e-mails, a member asks about spam and how to deal with it. Which information would be the most appropriate to include in the response? A) "Spam is like junk mail; you just have to learn to live with it.

What is the main contrast between William and his father in the shot heard round the world by Anne Elliot

Semantics of "on" versus "in"

What figurative language is this? 1. When the principal entered the class with a frightening scowl, the room was filled with a deafening silence 2. John was lucky to be alive.