1. simile 2. metaphor 3. allusion a. i defeated my opponent as easily as sliding a knife through butter b. my opponent's face became a white sheet when he saw me arrive c. he was the rock to my paper, the paper to my scissors

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lane. i attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. i have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. algernon. good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? this excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went