In a play about a football team, the star quarterback paces the stage alone and talks at length about the pressure he feels to win. which literary term best describes his speech in such a scene? a. dialogue b. stage directions c. soliloquy d. explicit theme answer is c.

He went with us to the picnic by the lake. which one is he pronoun?

“he did not want to look at the fish." what does this say about santiago's character? a. santiago feels badly that the fish died in vain. b. santiago feels sorry for himself because he's out too far. c. santiago feels sorry that he dragged the fish so far out to sea. d. he blames the fish for making him sail so far out to sea to hunt for him.

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth