Which scenario is an example of understatement?   a. the sign above the carrots in the produce section reads: "eyesight not so good these days? have a carrot, and it will lift the haze."  b. travis shows his spanish test to his mother, "look, mom, i scored a 100, which means i can speak spanish fluently! "  c. the police officer stops a speeding driver and asks, "sir, did you know you were going 40 in a 65 mile-per-hour zone? i'm going to need you to speed up."  d. the doctor tells juan, "your leg is broken in three places, so you are going to be sore for a while."

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

What task did the surveyors do? a. they studied the landscape to determine the most direct route for building a road. b. they designed treadmills that lifted blocks of stone to where they were needed. c. they dug trenches and filled them with sand, concrete, and large blocks to form a road.