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the black snake


black snake! black snake!
curling on the ground,
rolled like a rubber tire,
ribbed and round.
black snake! black snake!
looped in a tree,
limp as a licorice whip
flung free.
black snake! black snake!
curving down the lawn,
glides like a wave
with its silver gone.
black snake! black snake!
come and live with me!
i'll feed you and i'll pet you
and then i'll set you free! question: in "the black snake," what literary device do the lines "rolled like a rubber tire, / ribbed and round" contain?

a.
personification

b.
onomatopoeia

c.
a metaphor

d.
alliteration

Will mark as brainliest excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here:

Which theme is best supported by the descriptive detail in this passage from my antonia

From the glass menagerie: "suspended in the mist over berchtesgaden, caught in the folds of chamberlain's umbrella." who was chamberlain? a. paul chamberlain: tom's father b. neville chamberlain: prime minister of great britain. c. pedro chamberlain: amanda's drunkard husband d. cornelius chamberlain: gentleman caller for laura