Read this excerpt: doesn't everyone like sports? i know i do! if you like sports, then you'll love allantown's newest sports complex. it'll be really fun, kids will have a great place to burn off some energy, and i think we could get some really cool teams to play there. what do you think? what is most inappropriate about this excerpt from a speech trying to persuade the members of the planning commission to support the building of a new sports complex? a. the style is too informal for the audience and situation. b. the speaker is not enthusiastic about the project. c. the language is too academic for the situation. d. the tone is too somber for a speech about sports. oh and the wrong answers are b, d. those are the two wrong answers.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,