Read the excerpt from "Rain Forest Doctor.” We pushed the gurney as fast as we could through the halls of the hospital. After the rich greens of the jungle, the hospital walls were as white as fresh snow. We got Hector into a room and hooked up to several machines. Another doctor took over. I headed to the cafeteria, feeling relieved.

Which phrase from the excerpt is an example of figurative language?

through the halls
greens of the jungle
white as fresh snow
into a room

Whats the importance of gaining a general understanding of and interpretation of the work of literature. explain what the importance is to me

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

Read this sample thesis statement and answer the question: dr. king employs allusions in his “letter to birmingham jail” to the audience make connections. based on the thesis, what is the writers purpose for the essay? a. to show how allusion can the audience create information b. to show how allusion can the audience link information c. to show how allusion can the audience produce information d. to show how allusions can the audience understand information