Read this dictionary entry.
literal adj.
1. reproducing the words of the original work exactly
2. staying true to the actual facts without exaggeration
3. connected to the letters of the alphabet
4. relating to or written in letters
which two sentences use definition 2 of the word literal?
in her report, stacy provided the insurance agents with a literal account of what had happened to
her car.
as a part of her study of the german language. tania wants to do a literal translation of the
german poet goethe's works.
poetry is a literal depiction of a poet's creative imagination.
after the robbery in the neighborhood, the police gathered everyone around and asked them to
give a literal description of the events.
linguistics is more than just a literal study of a language.

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read the following entries from the online etymology dictionary based on the information above, what does the world microcephaly most likely mean? a. dull or unintelligent b. worldly thinking c. having a large head d. bigger than usual