Read the excerpt from "introduction to poetry" by billy collins.

i ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor?

"i ask them to take a poem"
"and hold it up to the light"
"like a color slide"
"or press an ear against its hive

What excerpt from a student essay maintains the most objective tone

The speaker in the “to a mouse” regrets that the mouse runs away so fast because the

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. match each of ulysses's characteristics as an epic hero to an event in homer's odyssey. ulysses conceives of a plan to blind the cyclops. ulysses shouts out his name to the cyclops while leaving the island. jove orders calypso to allow ulysses to continue on his journey home. neptune raises storms to throw ulysses's ship off course. place event faces obstacles set by supernatural foes arrowright possesses human frailties and flaws arrowright receives from supernatural friends arrowright is braver and smarter than a typical man arrowright