Read the line below from the poem “birmingham sunday” by richard fariña and answer the question that follows. at an old baptist church there was no need to run. which literary technique does this line use? metaphor personification irony simile

irony

Irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected. The line describes the church as a safe place. However, the church was the target of the bombing rather than the protest marches.

A metaphor is a comparison between two things without using like or as. A simile is a comparison using like or as. Personification is giving a non-human thing human-like characteristics.

answer: this is not a good thesis statement because a thesis statement is not supposed to have questions in it. a thesis states your position on your topic. a question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. a question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.

a,b,d are the three sentences that use a reflexive pronoun