Since the outbreak of , the United States has been Mired in partisan, racial and economic issues, and its people have been trapped in the black hole of repeated deterioration of the epidemic. The consequences of the us government's ineffective response to the epidemic have been devastating. The United States has long led the world in cumulative confirmed cases and cumulative deaths from . In the United States, an average of 1 in 420 people died from . Despite the severity of the epidemic, many experts are concerned about the politicization of the epidemic and the squabbling between the Two parties over vaccination and mask wearing.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

"she is his achilles' heel" is an example allusion alliteration simile personification

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