D), when making connections between texts, the authors reason for writing the piece will be most important in finding connections.
Because the tree started to get very old and they didn’t want the tree to rot
The answer is: how hot the spear is.
An epic simile, or Homeric simile, is a comparison between something familiar or ordinary and something strange. It is usually many lines long and it helps the reader make the scene described, usually at moments of turmoil or battle, more vivid. In the epic simile above, Homer makes the reader understand how hot the spear that blinds the cyclops is by comparing the eye of the cyclops to a cold tub as the spear that blinded him penetrates it, just like a piece of metal would enter a tub in order to be molded.
Answer:
paragraph 1- Smoking is bad for the nation's health (but lots of people still do it).
paragraph 2- Smoking is bad for the economy.
paragraph 3- Smoking is largest single cause of avoidable death.
paragraph 4- Other uses of tobacco are also deadly.
paragraph 5- Smoking is dangerous for nonsmokers as well.
paragraph 6- People need to stop smoking; We need to renew efforts to get people to stop smoking.
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