TIME SENSITIVE Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
Rip had but one question more to ask, but he put it with a faltering volce:-
"Where's your mother?
"Oh, she too had died but a short time since; she broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England
peddler.
There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence.
In this excerpt from "Rip Van Winkle," the reader can infer that Rip is
by the news of his wife's death.
a relieved
b confused
c unmoved
d upset

The messenger says that the play the audience is about to see teaches that (mark all that apply.): life is transitory pleasure and jollity are no in the grave strength and pleasure are when man "lieth in clay" everyman will be called to a reckoning of his life this is a comic play

Asap read the bottom. use these 7 words to make 2 similies, 2 personification, 2 metaphors, and 1 of any so much backpack toaster drummer beach heart bicycle microwave examples: (if the examples were a quarterback, a wave, and stars) 1. the quarterback is a cheetah running down the field. (metaphor) 2. like a wave, the birds in autumn move through the air crashing into invisible shores. (simile) 3. the stars danced in the night sky. (personification) remember to write using complete, correctly capitalized sentences for each of the examples you provide. also, proofread and spell check carefully.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.