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(mc)read this sentence from abraham lincoln’s letter to a citizen of kentucky:

often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb

which of the following best describes the effect of this metaphor?

a. it suggests a difficult decision with a painful outcome.
b. it suggests a life-saving treatment that comes too late.
c. it suggests a loss of functioning parts of a whole.
d. it suggests a process of curing that ultimately fails.

What evidence could be used to support the authors'claims in this excerpt? select three options.- tweets (twitter messages) describing the overthrow ofben ali at the time it happened- verifiable facts that explain that social media haslittle effect on citizen journalism-speeches that give biographical accounts of the life andaccomplishments of mubarak-journal entries from a student describing how socialmedia him join a protest- quotations from experts on social media use duringuprisings within the arab world

Best answer gets brainliest and 80 which poem is more effective and why? "on imagination" or "patterns"

Excerpted from "the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! look carefully at the lines above. a poem with this particular rhyme scheme is best read a. line by line. b. with long pauses. c. phrase by phrase. d. with a strong rhythm.