The central idea of the excerpt from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden where it speaks about London after how it was ravaged by plague and fire, is B. where despite the calamities that happened to London, it will once again thrive. Even though a great catastrophe has fallen on London, it doesn’t deter it from rising and flourishing once more.
Answer:
personification
Explanation:
Personifications give human attributes to non living objects
Twain arranges the story “Life on the Mississippi” in a biographical order.
“Life on the Mississippi” recounts the life of Mark Twain when he was a steamboat operator on the Mississippi River. The memoir also gives us a glimpse of how society lived during that era.
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Answer and Explanation:
The text is an interview with Dave Withrow about the operation that allowed the rescue of three gray whales that were trapped in Barrow, Alaska in 1988. Withrow shows that he was the qualified professional to work in this operation because he had experience working with marine manifers, such as whales, because when he worked at NOAA at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, his department was responsible for taking care of any matter related to whales. This can be seen in the first paragraph of the text, in the lines: “... anything whale-related, especially on the West Coast, comes through our office.”