What is the difference between a phrase and a clause?

there is no difference.

a phrase contains a verb where a clause does not.

a phrase does not contain a subject/verb combination, but a clause always does.

you cannot compare these two items to each other.

What was the basic premise of the civil rights act if 1964

Pls excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest—in the gale—is heard— and sore must be the storm— that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm— [3] i've heard it in the chillest land— and on the strangest sea— yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb—of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird “never … asked a crumb of me.” which type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)