During the fifteen minutes after the bus arrived, racists assaulted not only the Freedom Riders but also other passengers – both black and white – who happened to be on the same bus, as well as bystanders waiting in the station to welcome their friends and family to Birmingham. The assailants also went after local white reporters, destroying cameras, film, and a microphone. Right on schedule, a detective announced, “Your fifteen minutes is up . . . The police are coming.” The attackers slipped away. When Connor was asked why it took so long for his men to drive the four blocks from the police station to the bus station, he explained that they were all at home celebrating Mother’s Day. —We’ve Got a Job,
Cynthia Levinson

Write two to three sentences describing how the author helps readers connect to the people and events of the past.

please no plagiarized responses / sample response

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor

Read the benefits of wind energy. which statement accurately evaluates the authors response to the counterclaim in paragraph 1, stating wind power is i ferior to fossil fuels as an energy source?

Sonnets are lyric poems that often contain figurative language. which two parts of shakespeare's sonnet 116 are examples of repetition? sonnet 116 by william shakespeare (let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: ) o no; it is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests, and is never shaken; (it is the star to every wandering bark,) whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come; (love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,) but bears it out even to the edge of doom. (if this be error and upon me proved,) i never writ, nor no man ever loved. everything in quotations are the highlighted sentences, choose from these sentences to answer the question. make sure to choose two answers, you!