Retouched photographs of celebrities-especially those of women-pose a dangerous problem for children and young adults, who look at the photographs and aspire to impossibly stick-thin legs and eighteen inch waists.

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Certain predictable elements of beowulf, such as the superhuman hero and the quest to defeat evil, are common to the form. a. story b. plot c. epic d. novel

The following question is based on the excerpt from “nobel prize acceptance speech” by john steinbeck. according to steinbeck in his “nobel prize acceptance speech,” all who consider themselves writers must hold a belief in a. the erroneous nature of humanity b. the irony of life itself c. the perfectibility of humanity