Read the passage from Tom Sawyer. Which summary accurately translates the dialect into standard English?

Darn! Okay, you can go. I was sure you’d skipped school and gone swimming.
Great! I’ll go along with you. I made certain you skipped school so we could go swimming.
Oh dear. I didn’t realize we’d be talking so late. I meant to be sure you played hookey and went swimming.
Fine. I’ll believe you. But I’ll be certain you don’t skip school and go swimming.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Question 1 of 5 2 points in "how to eat an ice-cream cone," what does the author compare a melting ice cream cone to? o a. a hand grenade b. a runaway train o c. a machine gun o d. an atomic bomb submit

Explain the metaphor beyond the symbol by choosing the phrase that establishes what is similar in the pair of words. select the item that best expresses this. use your notes if you need them. poverty: riches