This is 7th Grade Language arts and I had to do this last year.
Marley means that all he ever did was business. If there was something to do with business he accomplished it. He is also trying to teach Scrooge a lesson to not be stingy and be nice and not be greedy. Marley had to always to business and he was greedy and stingy just like scrooge and he doesn't want scrooge to be like that or he will end up being a ghost on chains.
They were persistent. Even though they were looked down upon, they still were the best students.
Here are the answers:
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1) [A]: three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
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2) [C]: <span>humorous and realistic.
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3) [B]: metaphor.
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4) [B]: "Some ducks, which were cute and fluffy, begged for food."
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A condensed summary compiling information about a particular field of knowledge is a compendium. The answer is option D. A compendium is a detailed and concise compilation of a body of knowledge. It can also serve as the compilation of the summary of larger works. The word compendium comes from the Latin word "compenso" meaning "to weigh together or balance".