Answer:
It compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having an unexpected strength.
Explanation:
A Metaphor may be defined as a figure of speech where a phrase or a word is applied to an action or an object to which it can not literally or directly applicable.
In the excerpt that has been given in the question, there is a direct comparison made for the frozen crystals. They look very soft and fine when we look at them but they are hard substances in real. They seems like a deceitful foe to be friends to the city.
Answer:
His cruelty becomes increasingly deliberate.
Explanation:
Mr. Hyde is constantly fighting his two personalities. When he is acting as Hyde, he is a good man and a very decent human being. However, when his other personality takes over him, he becomes a monster, being capable to do anything and nothing can stop him from doing it.
Answer:
With careful student pairings, academics would improve and new friendships would form.
Explanation:
Pathos is the appeal to emotions. Two of the sentences really appeal to the readers' emotions. The sentence about student pairings and the sentence about families complaining. The question though asks which uses pathos to support the claim that "A student tutoring program should be established so that peers can help one another." The last sentence about families complaining does not directly support the claim that peers can help one another. The cost benefit of a student-run program is just a side benefit.
I think that the kids were scared of the step mother so they made heer into a witch in the story