Which line from “raymond's run” provides the best evidence that squeaky has self confidence?
a) so they are steady coming up broadway and i see right away that it’s going to be one of those dodge city scenes cause the street ain’t that big and they’re close to the buildings just as we are.
b) i’m thinking that girls never really smile at each other because they don’t know how and don’t want to know how and there’s probably no one to teach us how, cause grown-up girls don’t know either.
c) i continue with my breathing exercises, strolling down broadway toward the ice man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself.
d) the biggest thing on the program is the may pole dancing, which i can do without, you, even if my mother thinks it’s a shame i don’t take part and act like a girl for a change.

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

12 3 4 5 in general, modifiers should be placed close to the words they modify. true false

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .