Answer:
Declines is the answer
Explanation:
The correct verb to be used in the given sentence is ‘declines’, which according to the above sentence means to come down the steep ascent.
The action which follows after climbing a steep ascent is to go down or decline or descent the steep, meaning a sharp fall from the steep ascent.
The given sentence means that after a steep ascent, the bikers should decline on the slope of the ascent and reach a flat surface and race till it culminates at the finish line.
Answer: A simile.
Explanation:
While being interviewed by a local news crew before the game against his old friends, now turned enemies, Arnold Spirit Jr. (known as Junior) feels uncomfortable with the questions. He´s suspicious of white people wanting to see Indians play against each other as if they were a degrading spectacle, like "watching dogfighting". This is a simile, a figure of speech that compares two different things by remarking their similarities.
