Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

calpurnia was something else again. she was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. she was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why i couldn't behave as well as jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when i wasn't ready to come. our battles were epic and one-sided. calpurnia always won, mainly because atticus always took her side. she had been with us ever since jem was born, and i had felt her tyrannical presence as long as i could remember.

pick three uses of figurative language in the excerpt above and explain in at least 150 words what they mean and how they affect the reader's impression of calpurnia.

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.

antonyms of what word?

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