He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
close to the sun in lonely lands,
ringed with the azure world, he stands,
the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
he watches from his mountain walls;
and like a thunderbolt he falls.
which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle:
"he clasps the crag with crooked hands? "
a) metaphor
b) onomatopoeia
c) personification
d) simile

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

The vertical height of a soccer ball can be represented by the following function, where h(x) represents the height, in feet, x seconds after the soccer ball is kicked. rewrite the function in the form that reveals the times at which the soccer ball is on the ground.

What is the central idea in this advice from branch rickey to jackie robinson?