Figurative Language/Analogies: Which of the following is NOT an analogy comparison in the novel? *
"It's like I'm trying to climb a mountain, but I've got one fool trying to shove me down
so I won't be on his level, and another fool tugging at my leg, trying to pull me to the
ground he refuses to leave. Jared and Trey are only two people, but after today, I know
that when I head to Yale next fall, I'm going to be paranoid about people looking at me
and wondering if I'm qualified to be there."
"You looked in a mirror lately, SJ? You're just as white as I am."
"When they get to Manny's car and Blake pulls on the hood and raises his arm in the
Nazi salute, Justyce knows the train he just hopped on is headed downhill in a major
way. It occurs to him that the moment he said he was cool with the whole thing, he
cut the brake lines and completed surrendered his power to stop it."
"Jus, if Melo and SJ are diverging paths on the road of life, you're headed for a dead
end, my friend.

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

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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion