"i'm not exactly too small-town either. i read the broadway columns. you get to know what new york boy is that way about what hollywood actress on the west coast and what starlet is currently the prettiest and who eventually, will play joan of arc. it gives you that worldly feeling."
from "sixteen," by maureen daly
the passage above includes an example of which literary technique?
1.allusion
2.connotation
3.allegory
4.metaphor

Odysseus taunts the cyclops and reveals his name, endangering the lives of his men. what does this evidence from the text reveal about odysseus?

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination

Was there a true resolution by the end of the play? what is hamlet’s attitude in the final scene? has he resolved the conflict between thought and action? your answer should be at least 250 words.