Which sentence from The Phantom Tollbooth is the best example of using an idiom for humorous effect?

"Everything was quiet, and even the air hung heavily."
"The birds sang only gray songs."
"It's bad enough wasting time without killing it."
"And, as he thought, the wheels began to turn."

Answer:

"It's bad enough wasting time without killing it."

Explanation:

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Answer:

C.  "It's bad enough wasting time without killing it."

Explanation:

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Which best describes a "total war"?

A.war between imperialistic nations over territorial claims

B.war that involves every citizen

C.war in which millions of people die

D.war fought all over the world

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After gathering relevant evidence, forming an opinion, and creating an outline, it’s time to write a persuasive essay. Your purpose for writing this essay will be to defend your opinion. You will use your outline and the thesis statement to write the essay. You can use this essay as a reference while completing your own essay.

Use the checklist below while writing your essay. You should be familiar with these checklist elements because they have been covered in this unit as well as other lessons throughout the course.

Refer to this checklistwhile writing the essay.

After you have completed your essay, the next step is to make revisions. Learn more about revising essays.

Next, proofread for grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. You can refer to this source to learn more about proofreading.

Submit the final draft of your essay below to your teacher.

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Based on the way the six findings are presented and structured, which statement best predicts the type of information that will be conveyed in the six sections? Each section will categorically present details considered equally important to supporting the main idea of the text. Each section will describe a step in the process used by Pew Research Center to gather and analyze information. The sections will logically present evidence based on when it was discovered. The sections with the most important details will appear first, followed by those with less important details.

Private schools are better than public schools hook

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"Now, unto thy bones, goodnight. Yearly I will do this rite."

Complete this statement from the perspective of each of the people listed below:

"My name is ________. I am most famous for ________. I exemplify the ideas of the Renaissance because _________."

a. Dante
b. Raphael
c. Petrarch
d. Erasmus
e. da Vinci
f. Shakespeare

is lizard a pet or a wild reptile ?

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Why is the internet more useful to hate groups than newspapers, radio, and television?

I will give brainiest!! (Teacher gives our english class riddles)

What is the correct answer?

One day a boy was walking with a nurse. The boy was the nurses son. But the nurse was not his father. How is this possible?

Determine the literary device being used in the lines from the poem.
Drag and drop each item into the column it corresponds to. Order does not matter.
1.And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
2.And the river flows like a stream of glass;
3.Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
4.When he beats his bars and he would be free;
5.When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--
6.When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

What do these line suggest about washington

What do parables and fables have in common?

What is the purpose of the writer's claim in a reflective essay?
to persuade you to agree with the writer
to explain the background of an anecdote
to express what the writer learned
to explain why the evidence supports the claim

Adolescents seek both these qualities from their parents:
Select one:
a. security and financial binding
b. the opportunity to grow and the capacity to do nothing
c. the ability to self-organize and feel connected and cared for
d. maturation and interrelatedness
e. be coddled and valued

How many syllables appear on the first and last line of a haiku?

What is historical biased

In your opinion, do you think enough is being done to end the war? If not, what do you think the rest of the world should do?​

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Nectar in a Sieve
What’s the correct option?

What’s the answer?????

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Which passage from the novel best represents the theme?

A. Mawien Dut sprinkled water on his son's head, the Dinka way of blessing someone who was lost and is found again.

B. The days were long and empty. They stretched into weeks, then months, then years. It was hard to keep hope alive when there was so little to feed it.


C. To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting.


D. The Lost Boys. That was what they were being called in America-- the boys who had lost their homes and families because of the war and had wandered, lost, for weeks or months at a time before reaching the refugee camps.

The more people you are indebted to, the poorer you are. The more people indebted to you, the richer you are.

True
False

Which sentence has an incorrect pronoun number?

A. Solar panels will pay for themselves over time.
B. People will recycle more if he has convenient options.
C. We need to guard our privacy better on social media.
D. If our teacher agrees to this plan, she will be our hero​

what’s The definition of stereotype

Unit 1
Which of the following statements is not good advice when studying for an open book test?
You do not need to do much preparation because you will have all of the answers in front of you.
Prepare thoroughly, open book tests are often the most difficult.
Place tabs on important pages of the book so that you don't have to waste time looking for information.
If you plan to use your notes, number them and make a table of contents.

How did Napoleon's invasion and occupation of Spain affect the Spanish colonies in South America?

In "Two kinds," how do the mother's expectations of her daughter affect the story?
O The narrator fears she can never be what her mother wants her to be, and to deal with these feelings, she rebels.
The narrator becomes overconfident in her abilities and, as a result, fails to learn from the mistakes that she makes.
The narrator is inspired by her mother's dreams for her and gains confidence as she discovers her natural talent for music.
O The narrator resents being forced to take music lessons until she sees how much her family sacrifices to buy her a piano.

Which of these descriptions indicate that the writer's purpose is to inform readers?
A.
a journal article reporting five new scientific discoveries made about space in the last ten years
B.
a drama by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers who are stopped from being together by their families
C.
a short story about time travel and aliens living in a distant galaxy who are more intelligent than humans
D.
an article written in the newspaper arguing that the president’s foreign policy is harming US interests

3.
Which of the following best describes the speaker's opinion toward the fog?
A. reflective because the speaker analyzes the fog as it rolls over the city
B. anxious because the speaker cannot control the fog
C. excited because fog is an unusual sight for the speaker's city
D. depressed because the fog has had a gloomy impact on the city