2.read the following lines from “song of becoming. ”they’re only boys who used to frolic and play launching rainbowed kites on the western wind, their blue-red-green kites whistling, leaping, trading easy laughter and jokes dueling with branches, pretending to be great heroes in history. which of these ideas is most closely related to a theme in these lines? a. sharing dreams of a hopeful future b. carefree days of a happy childhood c. friendly competition between friends d. relaxing in the company of a good friend

Which war does jonas have a memory about? in the giver.

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?