Question 9 part b: use your answer from the last question to respond to this one “On the stone staircase that led to the front door, black lizards interrupted their push-ups to twist their heads and eye us as we passed” How does this use of figurative language affect the reader’s understanding of the test?
A: the reader understands how nervous the author is about moving so far away from civilization.
B: the reader can empathize with the hostility the author feels upon moving to a new place.
C: the reader can clearly imagine the crouching lizards checking out the family almost like people would.
D: the reader can tell the author has a big imagination and is exaggerating about her new surroundings.

Which sentence in this excerpt from frances hodgson burnett’s a little princess shows indirect characterization? it was just then that miss minchin entered the room. she was very like her house, sara felt: tall and dull, and respectable and ugly. she had large, cold, fishy eyes, and a large, cold, fishy smile. it spread itself into a very large smile when she saw sara and captain crewe. she had heard a great many desirable things of the young soldier from the lady who had recommended her school to him. among other things, she had heard that he was a rich father who was willing to spend a great deal of money on his little daughter. "it will be a great privilege to have charge of such a beautiful and promising child, captain crewe," she said, taking sara's hand and stroking it. "lady meredith has told me of her unusual cleverness. a clever child is a great treasure in an establishment like mine."

What is emphasized in william carlos williams's "landscape with the fall of icarus" but not n pieter brueghel's landscape with the fall of icarus? what conclusions can you draw about the similarities and differences between the themes of the two works?

According to whitman who embodied the highest ideals of democracy