Read this excerpt from "Foreign Lands." To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.

What is the effect of Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of figurative language in this stanza?

It shows that the author has the ability to see the future.
It emphasizes the dreamlike world of the speaker’s imagination.
It highlights that the speaker has visited many far-off places.
It illustrates what the speaker sees looking down from the tree.

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

Which of the following does not apply to an informative text? select all that apply. persuasive techniques supporting evidence opinions narrative text