Answer:
The story speaks about how the astronauts cope with boredom in space.
Explanation:
The article "Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You To Death" is written by Maggie Koerth-Baker. The article begins with six astronauts living on the slopes of volcano for a project named HI-SEAS.
They began with a pretending game of "What if we lived on Mars?" The astronauts are studying how people react on spending large amount of time in space. According to the article, it takes eight months on each way and the astronauts get to spend a large amount of time in the space and they must get bored of these long times.
The writer reveals that these chronic boredom times can be very dangerous as it makes the astronauts day dream and make them depressed also. So, they should engage themselves in various tasks to avoid getting bored as it involves the risk of life of other crew members as well.
Answer:
Simile: “but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell”
Metaphor: speaker says a promise made is a debt unpaid. Here, the poet uses a metaphor. He compares a promise to unpaid debt.
Personification: It seemed to the speaker as if the furnace roared
Repetition: Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home is the south to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
End rhyme: *see repetition
Imagery: I cremated Sam McGee
Hyperbole: The line, “But the queerest they ever did see,” contains hyperbole.
Assonance: Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing
Consonance: Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm
Internal rhyme: The Northern Lights have seen queer sights”. The words “lights” and “sights” rhyme with each other.
I could not find an understatement in the poem, sorry.
Answer:
- was walking down
- wouldn´t have recognized
- had not smiled
- hadn´t seen
- said
- would have said
- had asked
- would have been
- we promised
- would see
Task 3
- Could have taken
- had taken
- would have gotten
- would have moved
- could have gone
- might have met
- got
- would have stayed
- We might have had
- would be
Explanation:
Conditional forms are applied to visualize situations in specific circumstances. The first conditional refers to true experiences that constantly happen, the second conditional to imagined events, and the third conditional for imaginary past events.
