Answer:
The connotation is used to describe someone that is scared.
i see it a lot in shows and books and movies! imagine it, someone is scared to hop into the fire pit, even though they are wearing fireproof futuristic-y bodysuit. then someone secretly gossips, "whoa, fyuffyufnt7tn is a chicken, he won't go in the pit!
Answer:
d. The class gave her many ideas for the project, but she used only one.
Explanation:
Active voice is when a subject is actively doing a verb. <u>I completed the experiment.</u>
Passive voice is when the subject is passively accepting a verb, or not actively doing something. <u>The experiment was completed.</u> (by whom? we're not super sure.)
Choice D is correct because it demonstrates a subject, the class, doing a specific action, giving. It keeps the same idea, which is that the girl used only one idea from the class.
A simile is a figure of speech or a rhetorical device which refers to a comparison between two or more items using comparing words such as <em>like </em>or <em>as. </em>So, having this in mind, the correct answer "She's gone from sounding <u>like<em /></u><em /> the smoke detector." In this example, her sound is compared to that of a smoke detector.
1) Oprah Winfrey's first name was supposed to be Orpah, after Ruth's sister-in-law in the Bible, but it was misspelled Oprah on her birth certificate. The name stuck.
2) Embarrassed by her butterfly-rimmed eyeglasses as a teen, Oprah Winfrey asked her mother to replace them. When she wouldn't, Oprah Winfrey broke them and called the cops. "The story was that someone broke in, hit me on the head and knocked off my glasses," she told the Washington Post. "I lay down and faked amnesia."
3) Barbara Walters shaped the budding Oprah Winfrey's interviewing style. "For the first six months I was on the air, I imitated her like crazy," Winfrey told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.
4) Oprah Winfrey is the first African-American celebrity to land on the cover of Vogue, in the October 1998 issue. She loses 20 lbs. for the photo shoot. "If you want to be on the cover of Vogue and [editor-in-chief] Anna Wintour says you have to be down to 150 lbs. – that's what you gotta do," Winfrey tells the BBC.
5) Extremely spiritual, Oprah Winfrey prays and meditates daily. "My prayer to God every morning is that the power that is in the universe should use my life as a vessel for its work," she told Redbook in August 1996. "Prayer is the central thing for me."
