Answer:
1. She remembered  standing on a chair with her arms outstretched like a bird ready for flight while Hortensia fitted the sides  of the dress.
2. Instead, Alfonso  led them to a car with rows of wooden benches, like church pews facing each other, already crowded  with peasants.
3. Clicketta, clicketta, clicketta. The song of the locomotive was monotonous as they traveled north, and the  hours seemed like Mama’s never-ending ball of thread unwinding in front of them. 
Explanation:
I am assuming chapter 5 is "Las Guayabas."
All we need to do is look for the word "like," and check if it's a simile.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Hello. You forgot to show that the party claims that Brooklyn was so dangerous that Puerto Rico.
Answer:
D. "Something could happen to you' was a variety of dangers outside the locked doors of our apartment.
Explanation:
After moving to Brooklyn, the protagonist of the story decides to take a walk around the neighborhood to get to know the place, but her mother stops her by saying “Who said you could go out to the sidewalk? This isn’t Puerto Rico. Something can happen to you. ”
The expression "Something could happen to you" means "" Something could happen to you "which reveals that her apple said that something dangerous could happen to her outside the house and therefore walks in the neighborhood should be avoided as much as the place where they were was dangerous.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:Swim off with sure strokes
Explanation: Alliteration: repeating sounds at the start of a word
Swim, sure, strokes, all begin with the s sound.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
a. It is biased because it reflects an attitude about one of Thomas Young's ideas.
Explanation:
The given excerpt from "The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" by James Giblin which became the inception for the study of ancient Egyptian history. In his book, Giblin projects the ideas and opinions of Thomas Young in his attempts to decipher the stone's hieroglyphics. Although Giblin believes Young may have contributed valuable information regarding the stone writings, he also believes that Young's ideas are sometimes biased. 
Like for instance, in the given excerpt in the question, he mentions one such ideas of Young where he "<em>made a leap of the imagination"</em>. In cases such as this, it is important to find or provide actual proof, rather than depend on <em>"inspired hunches"</em>. Thus, this passage is a biased one as it reflects one of Young's attitudes. 
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
A timeline will usually you what caused an event unless the cause wasn't important enough to be there like a boulder fell off a cliff because it rained