ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL

A type of figurative language using exaggeration is ______.simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification

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Answer 1
Answer: A hyperbole is an extreme literary exaggeration. Such as, "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!" Obviously one person could not eat a horse, but instead uses a hyperbole to express his/her hunger.
Answer 2
Answer:

Answer:

other person is wrong, it's a metaphor.

Explanation:

"I ran as fast as I could to the top of the hill. I could hear Marley and Ian running behind me, but their voices were growing fainter. They were snails and I was a grasshopper leaping and jumping and leaving them behind!"

it compares two things without using like or as.

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Which of the following statements concerning the U.S. service sector today is most accurate?a. It has become the low-wage sector of the U.S. economy. b. This sector has grown much more rapidly than the manufacturing sector. c. It focuses less on quality and more on reducing costs of production. d. The service sector has achieved extremely high productivity gains according to government reports.
what purpose do sentences 3-6 serve in this paragraph? (1) My family has a quaint cottage at a small, private lake (2) THE cottage is about 75 years old, but we try to keep it in good condition (3) The outside is white with green trim on the windows and shutters (4) In front of the cottage is a flagstone walk that leads down to a stone patio. (5) The patio itself is right next to the water. (6) Out from the patio stretched a dock where we keep a small rowboat tied.
Although the results are mixed, _______ has often been used by teachers who are eager to instill order in an unruly classroom.a. physical punishment b. programmed learning c. a token economy d. biofeedback training
What basically comprimises the preamble to the constitution
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How is Tim O'Brien's chapter "Good Form" an example of Postmodernism?O A. The work includes footnotes.
OB. The work is controversial.
OC. The work refers to itself.
OD. The narrator is also the author.
SUBMIT

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Answer:

b the work is controversial

Explanation:

just did it.

It is A the work footnotes

Which sentence does not contain any errors? A. They'res a rumor going around the family that my uncle is moving to Spain. B. My brother's graduation from college is a source of pride in our family. C. Most people in line at the roller coaster will not admit there nervous. D. Its a known fact that fried foods are not good for you.

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B. is the only one correct. 
A. should be: there's a rumor going around the family that my uncle is moving to Spain because you are saying there is not they ares. 
C. Should be: most people in line at the roller coaster will not admit they're nervous because you are saying they are instead of there, like over there.
D. Should be: it's a known fact that fried foods are not good for you because you are saying it is. 
Hope this helps have the best day EVAH choose mine as brainliest please!!!!!
B. My brother's graduation from college is a source of pride in our family.is correct because
A. they'res should be they're
C.there should be they're
D. its should be it's
Hope it help:)

Which of these best explains how student activism was related to the silent majority?The student activists and the silent majority were opposing political groups, often seen at odds with one another in the media.
President Richard Nixon believed that it was the responsibility of the silent majority not to let the vocal minority take over the media.
Student activists urged the silent majority to take action and speak out against the Vietnam War.

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The statement that best explains how student activism was related to the silent majority was; President Nixon believed that it was the responsibility of the silent majority not to let the vocal minority take over the media. 

Answer:

  • President Richard Nixon believed that it was the responsibility of the silent majority not to let the vocal minority take over the media.

Explanation:

Nixon approached the "silent majority" of Americans to rally against Blacks and liberals. VP Spiro Agnew assaulted the press for its purportedly "liberal predisposition." Agnew condemned liberal associations like the American Civil Liberties Union for guarding protesters.

Answer quickly please What are voice and verb mood? How can you tell if you are using passive voice?

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voice described the relationship between a verb and its subject, voice is either active or passive, active refers to a situation where the subject of a sentence preforms the action/verb. Passive is supposed to be avoided because it is sometimes used to hide action from subject or a reader.

passive sentence- the dog was being washed by the girl

non-passive/active sentence- the girl washed the dog

Because of my sore throat, my singing is bad today. But it was _____ yesterday.more bad
worse
badder
worst
is it worst

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Answer:

Because of my sore throat, my singing is bad today. But it was worse yesterday.

Explanation:

The comparative degree of an adjective is used in the above sentence. When two things or two people are compared with each other, the comparative degree of an adjective is used. In the above sentence, the soreness of the thought has been compared between 'today' and 'yesterday'. Therefore, the comparative degree of 'bad' which is 'worse' is used.
worse is the answer ;)

Which word set completes the following analogy?adrift : anchored :: __________:_________

A.
soft : loud

B.
scrub : clean

C.
rearrange : arrangement

D.
float : fly

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Answer: A) soft : loud.

Explanation: an analogy is a comparison between one thing and another, usually with the purpose of explanation or clarification, this comparison is based on one similarity or difference between specific features of two things. The first pair of the given analogy is "adrift" and "anchored" this words are antonyms, so the pair that completes the analogy should be formed by antonyms too, so for this reason the correct answer is option A: soft and louds are antonyms as well.
The set (A) completes the analogy
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