16. read the following passage from "first confession" in which the main character has just entered the confessional. it must have been then that i noticed the shelf at about one height with my head. it was really a place for grown-up people to rest their elbows, but in my distracted state i thought it was probably the place you were supposed to kneel. of course, it was on the high side and not very deep, but i was always good at climbing and managed to get up all right. staying up was the "what are you doing up there? " he shouted in an angry voice, and the strain the politeness was putting on my hold of the molding, and the shock of being addressed in such an uncivil tone, were too much for me. i lost my grip, tumbled, hit the door an unmerciful allop before i found myself flat on my back in the middle of the aisle. the people who had been waiting stood with their mouths open. the priest opened the door of the middle box and came out, pushing his biretta back from his forehead; he looked something terrible. which of the following stylistic elements is used by the writer to create humor in these lines? (1 point) hyperbole incongruity irony sarcasm

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

The speaker in “the courage that my mother had” is a daughter friend grandchild mother

Asymbol always — a. gives human qualities to nonhuman things b. uses a connective word such as like or as c. stands both for itself and for something else d. presents an apparent contradiction that is actually true