When a teacher uses concrete objects, pictures, models, or materials displayed on the overhead to attract and maintain students' attention, she is attempting to capitalize on which of the following essential teaching skills?
a. review
b. focus
c. feedback
d. organization

Focus

Explanation:

Teacher can use different skills to draw students' attention like pictures, objects in the classroom, models, flashcards, materials displayed on the walls or ob the board. These are called focus skills, so 'Option b' is correct.  

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

the answer should be

the simple past tense of strive.

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