Identify whether each quote is a simile, metaphor, or personification. "We suffered all kinds of disease in our youth, but folks were sensible. They didn't squall like children and hide in the woods" "I'm going to climb the church tower and cut the tongues out of those bells myself" "The bright sun blinded me as I stepped outside" "They say bodies are piling up like firewood" "We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister's benediction" "We have no cause to run out of the city like children scared by a ghost" "...Her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow…" "A slight breeze waltzed through the room"

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Who did kipling think would read his poem? what do you think that this audience might have said in response to it?

Choose a different word from those you selected to study in this unit and explain where you have heard it used previously write this sentence you heard with the vocabulary word in it and include who use the word and when we do used to use proper grammar and spelling