Read the paragraph from "Rivers and Stories," Part 1. Traveling in the world, even now, we confront, one way or another, the human history of rivers. Several times in
the last few years I've arrived in a foreign city, and gone to sleep in a hotel room, and awakened to look out the
window at a river. The first time was in Budapest. The river was the Danube. I woke up just before sunrise,
walked out onto a balcony, and in the cold air at first light, looked out across the Pest hills and the first
glimmerings of day on the broad, mud-colored water. The smell of it was in the air. I realized that I didn't know
much of its geography. I knew that it originated somewhere in the Alps, flowed east across southern Germany
-the Nibelungenleid consists of Danube river tales—and south from Vienna through Hungary and then
southeast again through Serbia, emptying into the Black Sea somewhere south of Odessa.
What rhetorical device does the author use in this paragraph?
Rivers and Stories, Part 1
anaphora
understatement
hyperbole
anecdote

the service industry in the united states grew in the late 1800s. what was one effect of that growth?

the number of people with jobs in factories as unskilled workers decreased.

the number of people with jobs in factories as unskilled workers increased.

the middle class grew as people took jobs as clerks, lawyers, and teachers.

the middle class shrank as people left jobs as clerks, lawyers, and teachers.

the answer is a.

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.