Ure_tc_online learning
what do the metaphor and simile identified in this
passage most strongly emphasize?
thou therefore take my brand excalibur,
which was my pride: for thou rememberest how
in those old days, one summer noon, an arm
rose up from out the bosom of the lake,
clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,
holding the sword-and how i row'd across
and took it, and have worn it, like a king:
and, wheresoever i am sung or told
in aftertime, this also shall be known
-"morte d'arthur,
alfred, lord tennyson
the beauty of the lady of the lake
the importance of excalibur to king arthur
the authority of king arthur over bedivere
the timeless appeal of king arthur's legend
) intro

1) earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) the plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) they can move because earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) plates may also collide. (8) when that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) for example, the collision of the plate carrying the indian subcontinent created the himalayan mountains when it collided with the asian plate. which statement about this paragraph is accurate?