We work four long hours nervous stomachs a-churn then sneak into the closet to await her return which best describes how the pacing of events heightens tension? the group of friends has a fixed amount of time to finish painting the stars in terry’s room. the group of friends must finish painting the stars while terry waits downstairs with her mother. the group of friends wants to leave terry’s house after they finish painting stars in her room. the group of friends do not think they can finish painting the stars before terry returns.

The group of friends do not think they can finish painting the stars before Terry returns.

The "Nervous stomachs" phrase is an indicator that the group of friends is highly stressed, anxious and under a lot of pressure, because when a person is highly stressed, it usually affects its body as well, a nervous stomach is an example of that. Clearly, the group of friends is extremely worried they may not finish the task on time because of the bad consequences that may have.

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from context clues heliotrope is probably a flower.

a heliotrope are peruvian plants that have small purplish plants.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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