Read this passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. Can a steak or hamburger that’s infected with mad cow disease end up on your dinner plate? The answer is: probably not. What is most likely the author’s intended effect with this problem and solution structure? to alert the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease to inform the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease to confront the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease to reassure the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease

Identify an example of an epic simile in book 13, book 21, or book 24 of the odyssey and explain how it is different from a typical simile.

Examine the imagery in these lines of the poem "the legend" by garrett hongo. he is asian, thai or vietnamese, and very skinny, dressed as one of the poor in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw, dingy and too large. he negotiates the slick of ice on the sidewalk by his car, opens the fairlane's back door, leans to place the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of footsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy—that's all he was— backs from the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. how does the imagery in these lines affect the reader’s experience of the poem? check all that apply. it creates a visual picture of the man. it conveys what the scene sounds like. it describes the actions of the boy. it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters. it encourages readers to care for the characters. it shows the resolution of a conflict. it explains the reasons for the event.

In this passage the character of ethan frome is revealed to be