For this question you probably need to post the article your reading...
Basically a cliff next to a beach
Explanation:
The official definition for the word promontory is "a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland.". you will find many like this in places like Ireland and Scotland. They are made from centuries of erosion from the ocean
Answer: D: A piece of land jutting into the ocean
Answer:
A. Knowing that the attack might reach us in all too short a time, we
immediately began greatly to increase our industrial strength and
our capacity to meet the demands of modern warfare.
Explanation:
The attack is coming quickly so the logical thing to do is to prepare. The other examples are motivational or pathological statements while the first one (A) uses a clear and methodical string of thought to find a solution for the coming attack.
(If a picture type thing helps you: attack coming soon---what do we do?---begin to prepare for the attack immediately.)
Answer:
Woolf enjoyed reading, attending
discussions, and taking walks
Parallel structure
Art and science are branches of
river
Understatement
We are asking for donations for
play. Don't be a Scrooge!
Allusion
Virginia Woolf and Henrik Ibser
little things.
Metaphor
Many students need loans for
long will it take before we act?
Rhetorical question
Explanation:
A rhetorical question is a question that has no answer. It is usually used for dramatic effect.
An understatement means representing something as being less important than its true value.
Metaphor is a figure of speech that describes or compares two things in a way that is not literally applicable
Allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something
Parallel structure is using the same pattern of words to show that different ideas are equally important.
