In which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is Tubman using ethos? LAlbe
"[S]he kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free."
"As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight"
"Once they reached his house in Wilmington, they would be safe."
"But she wanted to remind them of the long hard way they had come...

In 250 words, discuss the ways in which the novel relates to the historical context in which it was published.

Which headline best matches the subject and language of the article? community efforts make dc dreams come true kids' fierce determination wows at splash and dash o youth group's successful car wash funds trip to dc splash and dash car wash supports local group

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme