Answer: A. preferred eating at the dining-room table to eating in front of TV.
Explanation: In line 11, Ellerbee makes that statement about seeing her family's ghosts sitting at the dining-room table talking to each other every times she passes it, In line 10 she says that it was lonely as a little girl only getting to speak for thirty seconds at a time because she couldn't talk until commercial.
True story:
Once I worked for a non-profit healthcare facility. Every morning when I arrived to work the nurses would gather for prayer. It was a daily activity that they assumed everyone enjoyed. I don't affiliate with or practice any type of religion. I went along with it because I thought it was harmless and didn't feel like it was worth risking exclusion or conflict with my coworkers. It was very awkward and uncomfortable few years especially when they'd ask me to say the prayer. I would fake it and just parrot something I'd heard them say before. Some days I would just tune it out and enjoy the extra few minutes of break time, other days it was very upsetting and felt like I was being coerced into practicing a religion. My co-workers truly believed they were doing no harm. I really should have said something all those times I felt like speaking up but couldn't bring myself to. Instead I just quit and found a better job.
Answer:
D. It compares the smith's muscles to iron to show their firmness.
Explanation:
A simile is a figurative language that compares things alike with the use of the comparing word "as" or "like". This direct comparison allows for the similarities to be highlighted in a much better and understandable way.
In the given poem "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the simile is used in the last line of the first stanza where the poet comments <u><em>"the muscles of his brawny arms / Are strong as iron bands"</em></u>. The poet compares the muscles of the smithy to that of iron bands.
Thus, the<u> correct answer is option D.
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Answer: About two weeks ago, I went to the store to get supplies.
Explanation: