What is a metaphor? a. a comparison that uses like or as b. a comparison without the use of like or as c. a device that gives nonliving things living qualities d. a device that appeals to the reader's five senses

The students who were in favor of adopting the new curriculum wrote editorials for their local newspaper which of these best describes how the information in the editoralw is different from the information in the feature story

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.

“we have had a little rain.” said the woman she looked out into a flood. hyperbole, understatement or neither