An appropriate personal pronoun for the bold word in the following sentence is she because a personal pronoun is: each of the pronouns in English ( I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them ) comprising a set that shows contrasts of person, gender, number, and case. Hope this helps!
Answer:
winning does not necessarily mean achieving the first position.
Explanation:
In the short essay "I Believe in the Also-Rans
" by Clive B, the author attempts to remind the readers how achievements in schools and universities have very little to do once we enter the real world.
He thinks that humans are depressed because we glorify winning and achieving great heights too much. Clive realizes this when he notice how Cyrus, one among his daughter's two playmates, proclaims and shout in celebration that he won the third place in the race although there were only three of them.
The one message that we can infer from this essay is winning does not necessarily mean achieving the first position. It can also mean accomplishing or completing the race.
Answer: D. Personification.
Explanation: personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. In the given lines from Plath's poem "Edge" we can see a clear example of personification, because he is saying that the feet (nonhuman objects) are saying "We have come so far, it is over" and as we know, speaking is a human characteristic, so the correct answer is option D.
<span>The figurative device that Swift use in his essay was </span><span>hyperbole. He used hyperbole because of the expression that is just exaggerated. The meaning of hyperbole is that it is used in the sentence to emphasize or exaggerate the thought of the sentence.</span>
