8. Please help, in which sentence is preoccupied used correctly?
A) Briana was so preoccupied with decorating the first batch of cupcakes that she failed to notice the curl of smoke coming from the oven, where the second batch was baking.

B) Maria preoccupied the children she was babysitting with plenty of games and activities to ensure that they had no opportunity to get into mischief.

C) The venue where we planned to hold the event was preoccupied at the last minute, so we had to scramble to find a comparable location.

D) Andrew is known for his preoccupied approach to problem solving, which involves examining a situation from every angle to determine the most effective solution.

Need ! how is richard characterized by alger in this excerpt from the passage? "to complete his costume he wore a coat too long for him, dating back, if one might judge from its general appearance, to a remote antiquity." he is exciting. he is intelligent. he is comical. he is happy.

To the one that i love i will never forget or hate just love me back

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme