Which of the following contributes most directly to the author's theme of conflict?

a. the japanese-american reservoir crew and the armed government soldiers stand silently against opposite sides of the shack as they wait for clearance.

b. the shack has only one window and is very dark when the lights are
extinguished.

c. only a few japanese-americans were permitted to guard the reservoir.

d. each crew guards the reservoir for twenty-four hours, checking the chlorine shed, walking the perimeter and making sure the water continues to flow to the camp.

What was the basic premise of the civil rights act if 1964

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.