When does the development of phonological awareness skills take place? A. The development of phonological awareness takes place over multiple years but is complete before children begin kindergarten.
B. The development of phonological awareness takes place over multiple years and ends when children finish kindergarten.
C. The development of phonological awareness takes place over multiple years and extends through the elementary school years.
D. The development of phonological awareness takes place over multiple years but all development of phonological awareness takes place before children learn to decode.

If you had a chance to change the past would you? why or why not?

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Select all the correct answers. why do authors use rhetorical devices in essays?