Answer:
The idiom is "skeleton crew" which means the availability of just enough employees to keep the work running.
Explanation:
Idioms are those words or groups of words that suggest or have a meaning which is not deducible from the given word. They are used in expressions which are not literally applicable or which cannot or should not be taken in the literal sense.
In the given sentence, the word 'skeleton crew' is an idiom which suggests that the company suffered a lot, leading to the reduced number of employees. the skeleton crew meant that there are just enough employees or workers to keep the company working. That means that the newspaper is barely manageable, with just the right amount of workers available in the company to do the work needed.
<span>“And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns.”
This line contains examples of INTERNAL RHYME.
</span>Internal rhyme<span> is a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words </span>rhymes<span> with each other.
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The three types of internal rhymes are:
<span>1) Two or more rhyming words occur within the same line
2) Two or more rhyming words will appear in the middle of two separate lines or sometimes in more
3) A word at the end of a line rhymes with one or more in the middle of the following line</span><span>
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Answer:
b
Explanation:
if the stone was some sort of reward then b would make more sense
if the stone was something precious or valuable to someone and have to trust it to someone and no one was an option then it would be a, but that kinda sounds weird so i thought it was probably b. another reason why it's probably b is cause c doesn't make much sense unless somebody stole it or something, which leaves d, but that doesn't sound like a good theme or lesson cause if it was something helpful you shouldn't keep it to yourself
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