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In his novels and poetry, Bontemps portrayed the lives and struggles of African Americans, a theme that can be seen in his poem "A black man talks for reaping." In this poem he uses the metaphor of farming to express the bitterness felt by blacks in a <em>racist</em> <em>America</em><em>.</em><em> </em>
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Chiron helps Percy and Grover figure out that they must travel to Hades in order to recover the master bolt. Hades is the god who has turned against his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon. Hades must have had someone steal the master bolt for him so that Zeus and Poseidon would wage war on one another.
Hades is the god of the Underworld, which means that Percy and Grover have a ticket to Worm City.
The page is somewhere in chapter 9. Sorry not much help.
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It's C: He cites evidence from the text to support his claim.
Explanation: Took the quiz on edge
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Simile - the children being pressed up against each other like so many roses
Metaphor - Margot is described as an old photograph dusted from an album
Personification - the cupboard door is said to "tremble" from her beating
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The bushes are dancing because:
4. The birds are hopping around in the branches.
Explanation:
The passage we are analyzing here clearly states that it is because of the birds that the bushes seem to be dancing:
<em>[...] and the bushes fairly danced with birds.</em>
<em>[...] as the small gray birds hopped on the swaying branches.</em>
The birds are hopping, stretching their wings, puffing out their chests, all the while making the bushes' branches sway. Why does the author use the word "dancing" to describe the movement of the branches, then? This is a technique called personification. Bushes cannot dance but, by saying so, the author conveys the idea that the way the bushes are moving is beautiful, rhythmic, hypnotizing, just like dancing.
