Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself." --samuel johnson
which rhetorical device is used in the sentence?
a) allusion
b) analogy
c) oxymoron
d) parallelism

How dose religion today compared to the puritans idea of religion

The basketball crashed against the backboard, and point guard sheena lunged for it. as she snatched the ball out of mid-air, the crowd cheered, chanting encouragement for her team, the monarchs. so far, the game had been a disaster. with 15 seconds left to go in the final quarter, the monarchs were 2 points shy of victory. what main idea do the details in the passage suggest? the point guard sheena was not a very good player. the monarchs had never lost a basketball game. the monarchs were worried about losing. the crowd was not supporting the monarchs.

Which of these phrases is an example of understatement?