What allusion does this passage include?
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My cousins and I went fishing last weekend. We were
catching a boatload of fish, but then a problem sprang
up. The boat started taking on water, quickly! We had to
jump out and swim to shore. We were dead tired after
that. The boat sank quicker than the Titanic. Luckily, we
weren't too far from shore.
What type of allusion is this?

Which word from the stanza can you use as a clue to determine the meaning of the word vales ?

Read the passage below and answer the question. somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. in the excerpt above, the phrase "stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning" suggests that despite the heat, men still dressed up the men in the town were vain men's clothing appeared its best on hot days the men were not accustomed to wearing nice clothes

Iheard a toilet flush and scurried into an empty stall. in this sentence, flush is used as which part of speech?