Read the passage. lori is a hawk when it comes to grammar. she spotted a mistake in a document, and she swooped in to fix it before anyone else even noticed. which figure of speech, or literary device, does the author use in the passage?

The author is using a metaphor in this passage.

Explanation:

A methaphor is a literary device that compares one thing to another without being literal. In this case, the metaphor is "Lori is a hawk." Obviously, Lori is not really a hawk, but the author compares her to a hawk because she spotted and swooped in the mistake like a hawk would do with their prey. Unlike a similie, a methaphor does not use like or as to make the comparison.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

first of all, dante wanted to write an account of the search for spiritual atonement and salvation, and this desire drew heavily from dante's own experiences. dante was living in exile while writing inferno and so, much like his poetic counterpart, he felt like he had lost his way and needed direction.

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