An onomatopoeia is a sound that is also the word. An example would be "boom" or "sizzle".
Irony is using the opposite words to describe a situation or something like that . Ex. The fire station burned down.
Personification is giving an intimate object human personality. Ex. The moon smiled down on us.
A simile is comparing words using like or as. Ex. Quite like a mouse
Metaphor is comparing words using is or are. Examples would be you are a cow or you are a chicken.
The italicized word (magnitude) in the sentence can best be matched by the word: size. This is referring to the size of the disaster, that it is hard to imagine something happening on that size scale.
I would say first identifying their purpose for reading the text so they can look for whatever it is. (for example, answering short answer questions they might want to read the questions first and then read the text and look for the answers)
Perhaps next would be maybe getting away from any distractions so they can read the text clearly. (so if your in a place where a lot of people are talking they might want to go to a more quite room)
I hope that helps!
- mathwizzard3
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The story's time period provides the reader with a reference point, for if someone reads a book about the early eighteen hundreds, they can assume that slavery has not yet been abolished and that people are outwardly racist. This helps provide a reference point, as if you didn't know the time period, you would be confused as why these events were happening.
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