Read this excerpt from common sense:

if we omit [the chance for a new government] now . . massanello . . may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.
what kind of figurative language does thomas paine use here?
a. rhetorical question
b. personification
c. parallelism
d. simile

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Which of the following words in bold means “to put before something else”? a) the broken device sat unused in a box. b) jose wanted to defermaking a decision about college until the spring. c) ashok’s counsel was to go to the store tomorrow. d) i would prefer to go to a movie this weekend instead of the play.

How can an author reveal move information about a character