Which of the following is the best meaning for “metaphor”?

a comparison between two things by exaggerating their qualities
a comparison between two things in poetry
a comparison between two things implying that one thing is the other thing
a comparison between two things using “like” or “as”

Answer:implying that one thing is the other thing

Explanation:  a word or phrase is applied to another thing figuratively, to highlight a charactersitic of the first. eg: black sheep of the family

Two distinct lines, m and n, are each perpendicular to the same line p.
What is the measure of the angle where line m meets line p?
What is the measure of the
angle where line n meets line p?

Which term best completes the diagram?

A. Wages
B. Goods and services
C. Interest
D. Natural resources

HELP ME PLZZZ!!!!
Read each answer choice. Three of the choices are sentence fragments and one is a complete sentence. Identify the complete sentence.

a
We avoided snowdrifts and ice, we crept along at twenty miles an hour.
b
After you called, I studied biology for hours, then I cleaned my room.
c
I really like the new song, have you heard it?
d
Josie found books about civil rights leaders in the library.

According to the PIE structure for writing about theme, what is missing from this paragraph that should be present?

One theme in this story is “Treat others the way you would like for them to treat you.” Squeaky feels that adults should give kids the same respect that they expect from them. When Mr. Pearson calls Squeaky by her nickname, she thinks, “. . . he’s got no right to call me Squeaky, if I can’t call him Beanstalk.


A) a summary of the story

B) a theme

C) text evidence

D) an explanation of evidence

Which sentence is written correctly? *

We red a shel silverstein poem my sneaky cousin in English class.
We red a Shel Silverstein poem, My Sneaky Cousin in English class.
We read a Shel Silverstein poem, "My Sneaky Cousin," in English class.
We read a Shel Silverstein poem "My Sneaky Cousin" in English class.

What is the combined meaning of the prefix and root in the word abduct?

A. Lead across
B. Lead away
C. Send across
D. Send away

The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill . . . "He is our brother in all but blood," Akela went on; "and ye would kill him here. . . . More I cannot do; but, if ye will, I can save ye the shame that comes of killing a brother against whom there is no fault—a brother spoken for and bought into the Pack according to the Law of the Jungle.” —“Mowgli’s Brothers,” The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling Read parts of the text about the law of the jungle. Then write a paragraph analyzing how the law of the jungle affects one character in The Jungle Book.

PLZ HURRY AND ONLY CHOOSE ONE CHARACTER PLZ ACTUALLY ANSWERE THIS CORRECTLY ILL GIV YOU 25 POINTS​

Words asociated with Happy and Delighted

Read the passage
Now, Mrs. Sparsit was not a poetical woman; but she took an idea in the nature of an allegorical fancy, into her head. Much watching
Louisa, and much consequent observation of her impenetrable demeanour, which keenly whetted and sharpened Mrs. Sparsit's edge, must
given her as it were a lift, in the way of inspiration. She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the botto
down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.
(from Hard Times by Charles Dickens)
Based on the passage, which point is Mrs. Sparsit most likely trying to make with the staircase allegory?
1. that life is a constant upward struggle
2. that Louisa is headed for a life of tragedy
3. that Louisa's poetry is destined to fail
4. that movement up or down comes in small steps

Which of the following are types of phrases? Select all that apply.
prepositional
participial
subordinate
absolute