Which describes the climax in “the monkey’s paw”?
the man from maw and meggins hands the whites exactly 200 pounds.
there is a stranger at the gate, who is hesitating to come to the door.
the whites go to the cemetery to bury their son.
there is a knock at the door, and mrs. white struggles to open the door.

Elie wiesel’s “the perils of indifference” speech how do paragraphs 15-16 contribute to the development of the text’s central idea?

Read this statement: "but old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs." how is this statement related to figurative language? this statement demonstrates personification. this statement demonstrates a hyperbole. this statement demonstrates a onomatoepia. this demonstrates a simile.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)