Who will be the obstacles, opposing my success? 9
and will they win, or will i be the most victorious? 10
what figure of speech does the poet use in lines 9 - 10 to describe the obstacles in her life?
a) hyperbole
b) personification
c) simile
d) synedoche

11 (mr. torres enters the room looking dejected and walks toward the front of the classroom.) 12 mr. torres: well, class, it appears that we've met with some obstacles in regards to the new garden. the storm last night caused a colossal amount of damage to the campus. the maintenance crew will be bombarded with work for at least a week, which means they will be unable to tackle the garden project. perhaps the project was too ambitious. how does mr. torres most likely feel when he tells his class that the school garden project is canceled? a) calm b) giddy c) nervous d) unhappy

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification