The girl in the picture i loved to look at the old photographs, especially the ones with me in them. i suppose that was bad of me and proved i was stuck on myself, but i couldn't it. the pictures with me in them were just more interesting. every stage of my life was there, snapped by the camera and stamped on a glossy piece of paper. i loved seeing myself at three, standing with my brother, donald, in front of the house in our matching cowboy and cowgirl outfits, or standing on a chair in front of the kitchen counter, mixing a birthday cake for mother. the pictures reminded me that i was real, that i always had been real and always would be real, and that i wasn't just some girl someone had made up. which two statements best express themes in the passage? o self-focus can lead to being conceited. o photography is an important art form. o gratitude is a key to growth and happiness. o pictures are a way of remembering the past. o parents enjoy documenting their children's youth.

Messalla frowns at the wide circular cover, for a moment returning to his own fussy world.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Which type of rhetoric is used in this sentence? while i'm certain some will disagree with what i'm about to say, i respectfully ask them to listen to the evidence i will provide to support my claim