Which word is closest to the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph? use the thesaurus to find the correct meaning.

that team was known for trying to annihilate their rivals. they would vanquish the other team by wiping out all the competition in the early stages of the game. then they'd run up the score as far as possible in the last part of the game.

vanquish
n. control
n. outplay
n. crush
n. defeat

a.

control

b.

outplay

c.

crush

d.

defeat

the underlined wored is annihilate

Excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest���in the gale���is heard��� and sore must be the storm��� that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm��� [3] i've heard it in the chillest land��� and on the strangest sea��� yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb���of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird " a crumb of me" what type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Which quotation correctly uses ellipsis to shorten twain’s words?

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of