Which option below from anne sexton’s poem “courage” demonstrates a simile? a. your courage was a small coal that you kept swallowing. b. it is in the small things we see it. the child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. c. later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets 15 you did not do it with a banner, you did it with only a hat to cover your heart. d. none of the above.

What is the central idea in this advice from branch rickey to jackie robinson?  

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

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