Answer:
Droughts can cause the geosphere to be very dry.
Explanation:
When there is less rainfall, land, which is part of the geosphere, becomes dry. When there is not enough water, plants will not get the nutrients they need from the soil and animals will not get enough water, and they will die.
<span>Some mood words that describe this passage are: cold, suspenseful, lonely, nighttime. The mood word 'cold' describes this passage because it's mentioned that there are chilly gusts of wind. 'suspenseful' fits because there is a sense of suspense building in the lack of people in the streets. 'Lonely' is a mood word that works because suddenly there are no people around, except for the narrator. And 'nightttime' is an appropriate mood word for this passage because it mentions that the time is 10 o'clock at night.</span>
A blank verse is a verse with out a rhyme, and is commonly used with iambic pentameters.
Answer: I would go with B.
Explanation: The group of words for option B seem like they would be used more for contrasting than option D. It can't be option A or option C because those options use comparing signal words.
Within these lines we see simile/metaphor, which is a
literary technique of making a comparison between two things that are generally
not considered similar in an effort to give readers a better understanding of
the topic being discussed. In the lines
we can see that the sound bees and flies make is being compared to the sound a
lute (which is a type of guitar) in order to give readers who might be familiar
with the sound of the lute (and unfamiliar with the sounds of nature) a basis
for comparison in the understanding of how the sound bees and flies
sounded. As such, what these lines are
saying is that the sound flies and bees made while they ate fruit sounded like
the music made by a lute.