Read these lines from the poem "camouflaging the chimera" by yusef komunyakaa: but we waited till the moon touched metal, till something almost broke inside us. vc struggled with the hillside, like black silk wrestling iron through grass. which best describes one effect of the poet's use of simile in this excerpt? a. it compares the struggle of the viet cong with the struggle of a silkworm emerging from its cocoon. b. it links two dissimilar things: the city and black silk to illustrate how the soldiers blended into the landscape. c. it shows the vc's coordination in the face of obstacles to emphasize the challenging nature of the environment. d. it relies on two similar words: "struggled" and "wrestling" to communicate the strenuous nature of war.

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.

Kthe pleasure of all living things in baldur's presence means the happiness that the sunlight brings; the sorrow of all living things at his death means the gloom of northern countries when winter comes. reread the two sentences in paragraph 7. what is the best way to improve these sentences. if there are no problems, choose correct as is.' a) correct as is. b) the pleasure of all living things in baldur's presence means the happiness that the sunlight brings; the sorrow of all living things at his death means the gloom that the winter brings. c) the pleasure of all living things in baldur's presence meant the happiness that the sunlight brings, and the sorrow of all living things at his death meant the gloom of a northern winter. d) the pleasure of all living things in baldur's presence means the happiness that the sunlight brings. the sorrow of all living things at his death means the gloom of northern countries when winter comes.

What example from the monkeys paw is conflict