Answer:
2. Personification
3. Simile
4. Simile
Explanation:
2. The author gave human characteristics to the night, which is personification.
3. She compared herself to the phoenix, which is a simile.
4. The author compared the girls hair to be as yellow as a crows foot, a simile.
Answer:
At the cost of the friendship with his friends and family
Explanation:
A proper theme of the story from the excerpt is that winning is not everything. Barry resorted to dubious ways to win the board games. His love for winning made him do many bad things just to win. These included stealing from the bank, cheating in the game by skipping spaces when moving around the board, and shortchanging others of their money.
He was warned by his friends to desist from such acts but he simply refused. In time they all stopped playing with him. So, Barry's love for winning overshadowed him and made him sacrifice his friendship with his friends and family.
Answer:
The sentence that most needs to be revised is:
A. I plan on stretching my paycheck to almost last all month.
Explanation:
We have a split infinitive in a sentence when a word (often an adverb) or a phrase is placed between "to" and the verb that form the infinitive. That is exactly what we have in sentence A. Notice how strangely broken the final part of of the sentence sounds:
I plan on stretching my paycheck to almost last all month.
The best way to revise the sentence if by simply changing the position of "almost" so that it no longer breaks the infinitive in the middle:
I plan on stretching my paycheck to last almost all month.
NOTE: Sentences B and C also have adverbs in the middle of the infinitive, but they sound much more natural and easy to understand.
