I was writing a story.
I have written poems.
I have been writing a novel.
I had written a song.
<span>I had been written up for fighting.
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The last one is sort of weird, since you can't say "I had been written" in the sense of the verb "write" as it would be grammatically incorrect.
Answer:
The statement which would best serve as a claim for an argument is the following one: Bicycle helmets may not be the most fashionable accessory, but every biker needs this life-saving protection.
The rhetorical devices that President Trump uses in this excerpt are options 3 and 5.
Trump uses overstatement in sentence number 5.
Overstatement is saying something to lay emphasis or give a profound meaning, as to make the point more important than it is. As a result, Trump uses overstatement when he puts emphasis on the word America.
Moreover, he uses repetition in sentences number 6 and 7.
Repetition is a rhetorical device in which the person repeats the same word or phrases several times, to make the idea more concrete or memorable. This device appears when Trump uses the word "protect" multiple times in his speech.
Answer
They do not die, they can be as strong as twenty men, they can direct the elements (storms, fog, thunder, etc.), they can command the rat, the owl, the bat, the wolf, the fox, and the dog, they can grow large or become small at will, they can, at times, vanish and "become unknown", and they can appear at will in different forms.
It should be the answer that has the prison and cemetery were built early.