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read the following excerpt from "notes of a native son":

that year in new jersey lives in my mind as though it were the year during which, having an unsuspected predilection for it, i first contracted some dread, chronic disease, the unfailing symptom of which is a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels. once this disease is contracted, one can never be really carefree again, for the fever, without an instant's warning, can recur at any moment. it can wreck more important things than race relations. there is not a negro alive who does not have this rage in his blood — one has the choice, merely, of living with it consciously or surrendering to it. as for me, this fever has recurred in me, and does, and will until the day i die.

analyze baldwin's use of metaphor in this excerpt. how does this rhetorical device contribute to his message and the essay's power?

In what way do you think it would be difficult to live next to the united states

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.

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.