FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - HYPERBOLE - Hyperbole is a type of figurative
language where the author uses a great exaggeration to emphasize an idea.
Highlight the hyperbole in this passage, when Papa brings Billy the traps:
"I jumped up and down, and cried a whole bucketful of tears.
I hugged him and told him what a wonderful papa he was.”
What is the author trying to show us by using the hyperbole?
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VISUALIZING SETTING - Locate and read the paragraph in Chapter Two
where the location for their log house is described. It begins with “Mama had
picked a spot for our log house."
Draw a sketch or import some images of the setting you visualize based on
the details given.

Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. the phrase "she turned white for just a moment" is mainly used to show that della has very fair skin. is afraid of jim's reaction. is beginning to get an illness. had become extremely angry.

If a sentence is a run-on, correct it. if it is correct as written, write correct. 1.)i looked down. i saw that the well was apparently dry. 2.)we read the preamble to the constitution, our group felt anew the power of those words. 3.)the boy had trouble with the decimal point when multiplying he always put it in the wrong place. 4.)the thermometer broke, the mercury spilled onto the floor. 5.)i mislead my car keys, my house keys were also gone. 6.)it is against the law litter, neveretheless, people do it. 7.)ann threw away the check, but she eventually recovered it. 8.)i generally like the climate of the area where i live i do not enjoy subfrezzing winter temperatures. 9.)everyone should be polite, however many people are rude. 10.)i made my own chili to eat it one needs an iron stomach.

Read the phrase. the garden of my class which is the correct way to rewrite this phrase? my class’ garden my class’s garden my classes garden my classes’ garde