Drag each sentence to the correct location on the table. determine whether each sentence expresses a literal or figurative meaning.

you are so on the ball with your to-do list today.

i didn’t mean to steal her thunder when i announced my award.

the sun is shining so bright today that i’ll need my shades out there.

he is juggling three bananas, and it’s making the children laugh.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)

Read the excerpt from suffragists' "great demand" banner. in 1917, more than one thousand women stood before the white house in a cold, pouring rain, holding silent vigil to demand a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to them. their quest to be enfranchised by law was known at the time as the great demand. the smithsonian's great demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. their campaign on behalf of women sought to move america one step closer to fulfilling the nation's long-deferred promise of equality under the law. which statements about this excerpt are correct? check all that apply.

In his play macbeth, william shakespeare drew source material fromraphael holinshed's chronicles of british history. compare thetwo passages about the slaying of the rebel macdonald.andwhich answer best describes how shakespeare transforms thepassage from the chronicles in his play? reaten andin the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofo macdonald and leaves it where it is, but in the playshakespeare has macbeth take the body to the king.foundof thein the chronicles, macbeth cuts off the head of the deadmacdonald and hangs it up, but in the play, shakespearedeletes that partsetnenuponin the chronicles, macbeth is portrayed as a cruel man whocuts off macdonald's head, but in the play, shakespearemakes macbeth kinder by having him bury the manpearein the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofmacdonald, but in the play, shakespeare has macbeth killthe man himself.