The following lines from "the fish" by elizabeth bishop are an example of what type of figurative language? here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient hyperbole simile personification metaphor

In the following sentence which word is abstract noun quincy insisted that each one of his teammate members demonstrate loyalty members team quincys loyalty

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read the sentence. bose ikard, a former slave, managed one of the largest thriving ranches in texas. which is the verb of the sentence? managed thriving a former slave bose ikard