1. Which of the following sentences contains a cliché? A. She'll be as tired as a runner after a marathon if she doesn't get a good night's sleep.

B. I thought the exam was going to be difficult, but it turned out to be a piece of cake.

C. We need to make our travel plans now before all the tickets sell out and we're stuck at home.

D. When he finally came in out of the cold, he curled up by the fireplace like a cat in a beam of sunlight.

B.

Explanation:

a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

the president was the speaker and it was a great part of history.

explanation:

video of the national aeronautic space administration's (nasa) coverage of president john f. kennedy’s address at rice university, houston, texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. in his speech the president discusses the necessity for the united states to become an international leader in space exploration and famously states, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.