Read the excerpt from the land. willie thomas hauled off and slapped mitchell across the face with the back of his hand. "don't ya get smart wit' me! " mitchell turned his head at the impact, but he didn't fall back. it was as if he had already braced himself for the attack. "you done had somethin' t' do wit' this here stallion bein' cut up, i knows it! " willie raved on. "you had somethin' t' do wit' it, i gets the blame, and i lose my good job! tell me what ya done! " willie’s motivation would best be called extrinsic because he is

What is a hyperbole in the book messenger

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

In the poem, anne bradstreet discusses the themes of death and solace, or relief from pain. analyze the development of these themes in the poem. how and why does the speaker relate these two concepts? cite evidence from the poem to support your answer