Which group of underlined words is a verb phrase?
a. chirping noisily, the baby birds wait for their mother to return. to return
b. the mother bird had been sitting on her eggs for many weeks. been sitting
c. the babies have hatched from their eggs. hatched from
d. within the branches sits the bird’s nest. within the branch sits

Exit "families were being further torn asunder, and those left behind knew no more about their own fate than they did of the loved ones moving on." this passage from the text best represents which of the following literary devices used by the author? a. the motif of racial prejudice b. the dramatic irony of the audience knowing more than the characters c. the motif of displacement and separation d. the theme of conflict between those leaving and those being left behind

Which literary device has emily dickinson used in these lines? how dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog to tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

Which best explains the role that the theme of freedom plays in this excerpt