Vague pageants woven on a web of dream!
and we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream / of modern life
is this a metaphor?

Read this excerpt from holes. he had no sailing experience, but the ship’s captain signed him aboard. the captain could see that elya was a man of great strength. not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain. it wasn’t until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry madame zeroni up the mountain. he felt terrible. what information does this flashback provide about elya? a.elya did not intend to break his promise to madame zeroni. b.madame zeroni is very angry and disappointed in elya. c.elya is terribly afraid of madame zeroni’s curse. d.elya does not care what happened to madame zeroni.

Read the following passage: sari couldn't believe her bad luck. she had locked her keys in the car. to add fuel to the fire, her cell phone was in the locked car, and she was late for a very important meeting. she knocked on her neighbor's door so that she could ask to use his phone, but he was not not home. what was she to do? what role does the idiom in the passage serve? a. it shows that sari has incredibly bad luck when it comes to work.b. it shows that sari's neighbor was not home either.c. it shows that sari locked her keys in the car.d. it shows that sari's situation was worse than it seemed at first.

In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, i am an involved member of my community. i volunteer at the local animal shelter every saturday morning, and i build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here? a. inductive logic b. ethos c. parallelism d. text structure