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Greg opened the door and found his father pacing the kitchen with a worried look in his eye. When he saw Greg, his face broke out into a smile. “Where on earth have . . . ,” he started to say. But then he stopped and pulled Greg toward him in a big bear hug. “Forget it, it doesn’t matter anymore. I’m just glad you’re home,” he said.
Greg looked up at the man he had never understood before. “Thanks, Dad,” he said.
“For what?” his father asked.
Greg smiled, and answered, “Everything.”
<span>2. As he ran he could hear the "Plop! Plop!" of the oobleck on the windowpanes. It was pelting against the palace walls as big as greenish cup-cakes now! Plop is an example of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a word based on the sound associated with the word. Other examples include: buzz, meow, oink, splat. None of the other examples have these types of words.</span>
The correct answer is C. The evidence textual offers the information to build the main idea. It also means that they are connected but they are different. The main idea has no sense without textual evidence. So, The main idea became the main idea because of the lack of textual evidence or the lack of pieces of information for that.
<span>The figurative device that Swift use in his essay was </span><span>hyperbole. He used hyperbole because of the expression that is just exaggerated. The meaning of hyperbole is that it is used in the sentence to emphasize or exaggerate the thought of the sentence.</span>
