The poet draws an analogy between an old clock and a monk in these lines from a poem. which phrase is analogous to "its case of massive oak"?
halfway up the stairs it stands,
and points and beckons with its hands
from its case of massive oak,
like a monk, who, under his cloak,
crosses himself, and sighs, alas!
with sorrowful voice to all who pass,—
(from "the old clock on the stairs" by henry wadsworth longfellow)
sorrowful voice
its hands
crosses himself
his cloak

Read the sentence. on days when i go jogging in the morning, my mind seems to process ideas faster, and my mood is more positive. how does the underlined clause add variety and meaning to the sentence? select two options. it describes the days being discussed. it makes readers want to go jogging. it creates a compound-complex sentence. it adds detail about the speaker's personality. it explains why jogging is beneficial.

Which example from lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun demonstrates the idea of self-determination?

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that. which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious. b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world. c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love. d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.