How is the following compare-and-contrast essay organized? movies are usually fast-paced stories that focus on action. they tell a complete story in about two hours. often, television shows progress more slowly than movies. there is less action, and more time is spent on people talking, which is called dialog. a television show is rarely longer than one hour in length, and the story often is spread out over many episodes.

subject by subject

point by point

by order of importance

by chronological order

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

Antony refers to brutus and his co conspirators as honorable. what effect does the continued repetition of this word have on the tone of the words around it?