Read the passage from “ways of nature.”
the swift is a stiff flyer: there appear to be no joints in her wings; she suggests something made of wires or of steel. yet the air of frolic and of superabundance of wing-power is more marked with her than with any other of our birds.
how does the author’s choice of words affect the understanding about swifts in this passage?
the phrases air of frolic and superabundance of wing power show that the swifts are quick and agile flyers.
the word frolic and the phrase wing-power make the birds seem carefree and playful when they are flying.
the phrases stiff flyer and something made of wires make the birds seem like flying robots.

Identify two instances of figurative language from the fourth stasimon of "oedipus the king" and explain what they mean and why they are significant.

Hurry need it ! 35 points in achebe’s things fall apart, the igbo people live in a patriarchal society; accordingly, they worship several different gods all property and authority belong to men all business transactions are done by barter they live under the authority of a foreign ruler

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”