Yes, "All teenagers are mean and smelly they really need to clean up their acts." is a run on sentence.
This is an example of a simile, a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as." "Gloomy as the night" is the simile here, since his sadness is being compared to nighttime.
Quindlen links the conclusion to the introduction of her essay with the words "like many improbable ideas, when it works, it's a wonder", which is very close to her claim in the overall text, "America is an Improbable idea", it isn't supposed to work but it does despite all of the differences, specifically racial or ethnic, within it.
The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and explores the themes of legalism, guilt and sin. It tells the story of a young woman who is thought to have committed adultery. She refuses to tell anyone who the father of her child is. Her punishment is to wear a scarlet letter on her chest for the rest of her life. She is thus branded as a sinner and there can be no forgiveness for her crime. Master Dimmesdale is a young minister who tries to convince the town fathers that it is unfair to force the young women to confess her sins in public. Based on the above, the word that best describes Master Dimmesdale is "Compassionate".
Answer:
Adverb
Explanation:
The <em>fire</em> is being modified by <em />over the river<em /> which is an action, and thus is an adverb.
