As Lucia left home on her birthday, a bus splashed her with mud and ruined her new sweater. Happy birthday to me, she muttered What figure of speech is shown in the paragraph?
A. Item category
B. Pun
C. Verbal irony
D. Personification

How does the author use structure to create tension in the excerpt

In hard times by charles dickens, mr. gradgrind’s name can be interpreted in several ways. the selection supports all of the following interpretations except he grinds out graduates who are similar to each other as if he were running a factory he grinds the importance of facts into students’ heads he grinds down children by crushing their imaginations he grinds his teeth together, suggesting his intolerance for fantasy

Which of the following components of information literacy relates the most to purpose of information? a. information creation as a process b. authority is constructed and contextual c. research as inquiry