During his speech, the guest speaker wildly with his hands, distracting the audience from the important points he was trying to make.

a. intermingled
b. afflicted
c. gesticulated
d. absconded

(i'm stuck choosing between either a, or c)

What characteristics show passage 3 to be poetry?

The literature of nineteenth-century realism depicted everyday life in a realistic way. which statements show that leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich is a realist text? the description of human struggles in the form of ivan ilyich’s suffering the faithfulness of relationships that ivan ilyich experiences toward the end of his life the romantic tension that occurs between ivan ilyich and his wife the difference between superficial and authentic living the plot ending with a surprising turn of events

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