Read the following excerpt from a performance review.
listeners will surely enjoy the way mathers can "talk the
hind legs off a donkey" once she starts telling her tales.
why might the author have put the phrase "talk the hind legs off a donkey" in
quotation marks?
a. to draw attention to the source's phrasing
b. to show that it is a metaphor and not literal
c. to indicate that he does not understand the expression
d. to discredit the source as unreliable

Based on the text and the map, which labeled location sends products to shihr? the travels of marco polo and study the map.

Which themes are portrayed through juliet’s monologue?

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.