"it’s all i have to give, and all anyone needs to live, and to go on living inside, when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember, i love you."
in the first two lines of the excerpt, what literary device calls attention to the idea that poetry and love are all anyone needs to survive?
a) a simile
b) a metaphor
c) rhyme
d) repetition

images of intense weather events

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.