Teresa had planned to quit the basketball team for three weeks. She liked spending time with sister, but she just felt like she wasn't cut out for basketball's rapid pace. Teresa felt like a fish out of water. After they got home from school, Teresa knocked at
her sister's door. Slightly opening the door, she saw her sister shooting a miniature basketball into a plastic hoop on the wall.
In paragraph 3, when the author writes, she felt like a fish out of water. this is an example of a/an
A
alliteration
B)
hyperbole
metaphor
D
Simile

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.

Tobias wolff most likely named his short story "mortals" because the story explores the theme of people coming to terms with the idea that one day they too will die. wanting to find out what their loved ones really think of them. achieving immortalit by being "big people" while they are alive. hoping that they will have accomplished something before they die.