Read this sentence from the passage: "i could tell, by their quicksilver speed, that the littlest creatures were accustomed to the approach of larger predators." what does the word quicksilver mean? frightening valuable unpredictable dangerous

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

When a mother loses her child, she's — highly agitated from strong emotion. a scene is if there's lots of action with little order.

What questions should readers ask about the exposition of a story?