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What is the direct object in the following sentence? jerry asked him a question. a. question b. jerry c. asked

Why does the host answer the guest with brief responses during the party?

Which line in this excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t. s. eliot uses synecdoche? shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.