<span>Ivan Ilyich cannot face up to the reality that he is dying.<span> As he obsesses with the thought of dying, his mind swings between hope and despair.</span><span> He grows angry and bitter at everyone in his life, except his servant Gerasim.</span>
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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:
The oldest girl whispered to her sisters that she had a plan. She had read that onions could freeze a troll in his tracks. She tricked the troll into taking an onion from the cupboard by saying it was a delicious yellow apple. He greedily grabbed it and was frozen in place. The middle sister figured out how to untie the ropes around them. She used them to sew the troll into a trap.
Explanation:
This is due to contrast in language. Describing a simple and everyday object such an umbrella is not supposed to need formal or logic language and that is, precisely, the comic effect of the comparison.
Answer: "On average, school uniforms cost $150 a year, which is much less than the average spent on back-to-school clothes."
Explanation: This is the answer because it proves the author's point that school uniforms are less expensive than buying "... an entire wardrobe of designer clothes and trendy styles".