The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning is known as
A) irony
B) symbol
C) mood
D) hyperbole

Which of the following characters from a midsummer night's dream is used as an allusion to earlier english poetry

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

The function described as consumption and the absorption of energy through photosynthesis is called a. respiration b.energy absorption/food consumption c.excretion d. re-charge