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Analyze how the author uses words to convey an overall mood of a text.
Analyze how the author uses style, content, and persuasiveness to convey a certain feeling or thought about a topic.
Analyze how the author uses key vocabulary words to demonstrate different themes in a text.
Analyze how the author uses symbolism to convey important overlying themes in the text.
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a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4

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