When reading a piece of written work, one of the components of the piece that to guide you through the piece is the thesis statement. this is the main idea of the entire piece, or the point that the author is trying to prove. (you typically only find these in non-fiction pieces, but they may occasionally show up in fictional pieces.) in order to write strong thesis statements, you have to practice. the two main components for a good thesis statement are the subject (what you are talking about) and your opinion (how you feel about it). of course, we have to do this in a professional way, so you can’t just write something like, “dogs are cool.” let’s imagine that you are writing a research essay about how the brain works. (that’s a hint, by the way! ) what type of thesis statement could you write? here is one example. “the brain is amazing because of its capacity to remember things.” or “our psychological processes are incredibly complicated.” each of these has a subject (brain remembering things, or psychological processes) and an opinion (amazing or incredibly complicated). now, your task today is to create 5 thesis statements. i’d suggest that you write them about the brain to get a head start on your big project, or you can pick any subject you know something about. the most important thing is that they have a subject and an opinion! write these 5 thesis statements and submit them to your instructor.

Which excerpt best states the central idea of the second paragraph of the dark game ?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Which literary device does orwell most use to support his purpose in writing in this passage? characters, to show that what happens on the farm is fiction allegory, to show similarities between the farm and the soviet union point of view, to show how the characters think about the murders setting, to show that events in the soviet union may have been caused by the economy