Literary Devices
English XII - Skills
Which literary device is used in this sentence from A Tale of Two Cities?
"A memorable storm of thunder and lightning broke with that sweep of water, and there was not a
moment's interval in crash, and fire, and rain, until after the moon rose at midnight."
alliteration
hyperbole
personification
onomatopoeia

In the excerpt above why does meursault say that czechoslovakian man got what he deserved ?

Write a summary of “tribal nations: climate change threatens traditional ways of life.”

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky