Read the excerpt and answer the question. I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young. Which best describes the figurative language used in this sentence?

The regular English plural endings are - s and - es. a. True b. False

What is the passive voice of my mother cooks tasty food

In North and South America, Select the one most correct answer from the choices given. preposition conjunction interjection

Which sentence most accurately describes the effect of upbeat background music in a radio news segment? A. It creates a positive tone, B. It creates a negative tone. c. It creates a feeling of suspense, D. It creates a feeling of conclusion,

Arnold is narrowing the focus of his memoir. He makes the following note: Me, my dogs Daisy and Seamus - - check with my Dad, Can't remember if he was there - - we encountered huge bear in the woods - - matted shaggy brown fur claws, yellow teeth.

What feature distinguishes this passage as an introduction?

What is the deal that Jim and the man on the Island come to terms with?

In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, what does the Time Traveller bring back from the future? Weena a giant crab two flowers camphor

What elements make on of the poems sound more like normal speech? Which one and why? "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins to "Sonnet 43", by ELizabeth Barrett Browning.

Read this excerpt from "What I Hope to Leave Behind." For a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere.