Read the paragraph. After breakfast, she and her family piled into their minivan and headed to school where graduation went off without a hitch. Elianna's stomach flipped as the principal called her name and she accepted her diploma as her parents waved and smiled at her from the audience.

How does saying that Elianna's "stomach flipped" help the reader understand how she is feeling?

A. It helps the reader understand how nervous and excited she feels.

B. It helps the reader understand how sick to her stomach she feels.

C. It helps the reader understand how hungry she feels.

D. It helps the reader understand how anxious she feels wondering what her parents' graduation gift will be.

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

What best explains why the character asagai is a symbol for heritage ?

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.