The answer would be A. cheating, because you always have to show your work, so the teachers know you understand it, and didn't just take it from some website or book without fully understanding it. Hope this helps, and good luck!
The way an author writes (includes punctuation/capitalization, stanza and line length, figurative language, and sound devices)idiom<span>an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words (type of fig. lang)</span>
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In the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet describes the sailing ship as "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean". This sentence highlights the unusual fact that the sailors notice that the wind has completely stopped blowing. The sailing ship has now reached the silent sea. As a result, the sailing ship appears to be stuck at one place and not to be moving at all and is as still as the painting of a ship.