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Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

What does the birdcage symbolize in trifles ?

What rhetorical device is used in the following sentence? with confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so us god.