Simile - What is being compared in the following passage? "...she [Liesel] stood on Munich Street and watched a single giant cloud come over the hills like a white monster…. The sun was eclipsed, and in its place, a white beast with a gray heart watched the town" (322). Why was this better than saying, "A cloud crossed the sky"?

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

Compound and complex sentences pre test active time remaining 19: 06 a sentence that includes an independent clause and at least one dependent clause is called a sentence.

Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. even though most people think of africa as a desert, zimbabwe has a hot, tropical climate, so mangoes, passion fruit, pineapples, and avocados grow well there. a. compound b. simple c. complex d. compound-complex