Answer: Tectonic plates move because..
Explanation: The heat from radioactive processes within the planet's interior causes the plates to move, sometimes toward and sometimes away from each other. This movement is called plate motion, or tectonic shift. I hope this helped.
Answer: Pouring
Explanation: Because none of the other choices would be correct.
You can't say " The rain was declining heavily on the roof "
Or Tumbling on the roof
Falling and pouring are very different, "pouring "means coming down very fast.
Falling has no drama
Pouring lets you know you will be drenched if you are out in that type of rain.
I believe this would be b.
hope this helps!
<span>Assonance is the use of repeated vowel sounds in a series of words.
Sorry I haven't read that excerpt but just so you know :)
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The excerpt is the following:
<em>As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.</em>
Answer:
He states that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs."
Explanation:
An understatement is a figure of speech that consists of intentionally representing something less important or smaller than it really is. This is what Swift uses when he suggests that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs." The author employs this figure of speech to catch the readers' attention and to criticize Irish society and its attitude toward the condition of poor farmers and laborers who can not feed their children due to the high rent they have to pay to their landowners. In order to improve the poor's economic situation, they'd better sell their children off as food to feed the wealthy.
