Which sentence combines both an active verb and a concrete noun? a. the officer was given an award. b. the child was allowed to play until dark. c. harriet was never taken seriously d. captain carpenter humbly accepted the purple heart

Think about an important point you want to make to someone. maybe you want to tell someone you love them. perhaps you need to ask your boss for time off. or you want to get your neighbors to keep their dog from using your lawn as a restroom. whatever the message, however light or serious the tone, use the poetry techniques from lesson 1 to you communicate it in the form of a poem. use at least two examples of figurative language and at least two sound devices (you may choose rhyme as one of your sound devices). bold print or highlight the figurative language and sound devices in your poem to point them out to the reader. this is a creative writing endeavor. have some fun with poetry techniques from lesson one include metaphor simile and personification and sound devices are alliteration assonance consonance and onomatopoeia

Choose the letter of the word that most clearly expresses the tone in each passage. if you are unfamiliar with any of the words, look them up before you select the correct answer. we have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. they lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. we bid them a final farewell. question 1 options: forgiving sorrowful angry amused

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.