Personification is giving human characteristics to nonhuman things. Under what category does this stylistic choice of John Updike fall?

A. Figurative language

B. Foreshadowing

C. Metaphor

D. Manipulation of sentence structure

Practice and Apply Identify the verbal irony or pun in each sentence and explain its meaning. Com 1. Ned said, I just love working in the hot sun. When can we do this again?" 2. Billy Fisher was a minor character and remained one as an adult 3.

What happened soon after Albus arrived at Hogwarts?

Order these events as they take place in "The Grapes of Wrath": A. Mae refuses the man's request to buy bread from her restaurant. B. Al insists that Mae give the man and boys a loaf of bread for ten cents. C.

According to paragraph 13, compared to other advanced industrial nations, America A. provides opportunities for one in four college students, ages 25 to 34, to earn a college degree B.

When Faustus tries to write the contract in blood, what happens? The page catches fire His blood congeals An angel stops him He changes his mind

In which sentence does not have pronoun antecedent agreement? A dave and i like sundays because we can watch football B the police officers arrested the suspected and put it in jail. C the old wooden bed creaked when the child sat on it.

When the chorus first came about, how many members did it have? How many members did Sophocles have in the chorus for one of his plays?

Doing so will protect the world's best fighters and create a status quo that will produce exciting Olympic level matches. Why does the author use the word 'Olympic' in this sentence?

Read the following sentence. Decide if the italicized verb is used as transitive or intransitive. The sun set. transitive intransitive

Read the excerpt from "the gift of the magi" the theme expressed in this paragraph is that