Hi,
The following line from the excerpt shows personification:
<span>"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
It is personifying the night.
~Elisabeth</span>
Answer:
'Alumnae' is a plural noun, so it must agree with the plural verb 'are.'
Explanation:
'Alumna' is the feminine singular form of the noun.
'Alumnae' is the feminine plural form, used for groups of women.
There was once a goddess whose charm and gorgeous looks made all the men swoon. She was a symbol of feminine beauty. Her long flowing brown hair, big blue eyes, and slender frame set her aside from all the mortals. Though some human women were beautiful, none could ever be as pretty as she. She resembled love and sexuality.
The correct answer is D.
In this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That," Didion seeks to explain that the time she spent in New York went by so quickly she did not even notice. She compares her experience with that of a movie, in which several years may pass in just a minute.
She expresses that, looking back, it all feels surreal, like something that she saw on a movie.
The answers are
After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders.
I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals.
These two are sentences because they are separated by peridods, commas only denote a smaller break in a long sentence. In these two sentences the author says that after learning how he got his medals the others were less enthused about them and started treating the narrator differently.
