I NeEd HeLp Read the sentence from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza.

I pushed a chair under it and after some instruction from my mother proceeded to create lightning in the room by turning the switch as fast as I could.

The author uses figurative language to

form a picture of flashing light.
compare himself to his mother.
give human qualities to the light.
imagine what the chair looks like.

What poetic devices does shakespeare use in these lines? select all that apply. they are prose. they are blank verse. they are rhyming couplets they are in iambic pentameter.

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

In 12 angry men the jurors decide that the women could see as far as she could