Read the ending paragraph from a chapter of heart of a samurai. when he finally reached one of them, he raised his head and looked up. he could not lift his arm to reach out. his blood turned to ice, and dizzy again, he felt himself sinking. for when he had looked into his rescuer’s face, he had gazed into a pair of eyes as blue as the sea. which best states why the author ends the paragraph with a cliffhanger? to show the resolution to a problem in the story to create a feeling of relief after a scary event to develop the traits of the main character to build suspense so the reader will keep reading

Read the sentence from barrio boy by ernesto galarza. "now, ernesto, you are the man of the family. you will take care of your mother until we are together in sacramento. which statement best describes the figurative language used in these sentences? a simile is used to compare ernesto to a man. a simile is used to paint a picture of family life. a metaphor is used to compare a man and his family. a metaphor is used to paint a picture of responsibility.

Review the detail. beethoven chooses to stay when the children beg him to play more. which is the best inference that can be drawn about beethoven?

She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.