Read this sentence from paragraph 2. An impending epic tragedy, that's what it was.
Why does the author use a metaphor in this sentence?

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

Which is the comparative degree of the word tall? a. taller b. tallest

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.