Read the excerpt from “From Barter to Bitcoin.” Three friends have just spent an hour gathering colorful rocks at the beach. They arrange their finds on a beach towel and get ready to trade.

Megan sees that Pedro has a bright blue rock. Blue is her favorite color.

“How many of my shiny pink stones do you want for that bright blue rock?” Megan asks Pedro. She has plenty of shiny pink stones, but not a single blue one.

Pedro thinks for a moment and then says, “Five pink stones.”

“Five?” Megan says. “That is a lot. Will you take three?”

Sneha interrupts. She also loves blue. “I will give you this dark green rock for that blue one,” Sneha tells Pedro. Sneha knows that Pedro’s favorite color is green.

“Sold!” Pedro exclaims.

“Rats!” Megan grumbles.

NO LINKS OR ILL BAN U

The most likely reason king uses allusions in this part of his speech is to

Describe your passion for sports (100 words or less). required

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret