What is the absolute phrase in this sentence?

The conductor started the youth orchestra with a flourish, her baton rising gracefully.

with a flourish

the youth orchestra

The conductor started

her baton rising gracefully

When is using a euphemism bad? O A. When it causes people to laugh or feel happy O B. When it minimizes the seriousness of something O C. When it provides the direct definition of a word O D. When it says something in an indirect way

Etymological dictionaries are the only dictionaries that provide word derivations.

Which stage in a plot shows an increase in the conflict before it reaches its climax? a. rising action - the development of the conflict and the characters' attempts to overcome it b.

Which excerpt from the "General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales tells us that the knight had been part of the Crusades, military expeditions in which Christians sought to win the Holy Land?

What Is Verbal Irony?

Choose the meaning that gives a denotation of the word house

Laertes: For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

The author of this passage uses which literary device? A) allusion B) flashback C) foreshadowing D) irony

One day my friend, exited about her new bicycle, called me on the phone

What is the theme of the poem come in by Robert frost