Question 1
“ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”

question: what type of figurative language is being used in this sentence?

idiom

oxymoron

simile

metaphor

question 2
jem tells scout that when he retrieved his pants from the radleys’, “they were folded across the fence like they were expectin’ me.”

what type of figurative language is being used here?

simile and metaphor

metaphor and hyperbole

simile and personification

metaphor and personification

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

Either you must stop eating my food from the refrigerator or you must pay me for it. 8. what type of conjunction is used in the sentence?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)