Literary devices! 40
respond to the following in complete sentences: identify which of the following examples uses figurative language to describe the image. what makes the example you identified figurative language? which device is used?
the protesters continued to gather on the marble steps of city hall; they were a peaceful crowd that wanted to see changes made.
the group of protesters who surrounded city hall was not a fly buzzing in one's ear; instead, they were a swarm of bees that demanded attention.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

a) he encouraged islamic schools to introduce greek texts.

d) he invited greek scholars to teach their texts to the locals.

explanation: