Which excerpt has the greatest hyperbole? The pear tree stood tall in the garden, waving her shady branches. Leaves fell like confetti when the children scrambled up the tree. The doctor’s office was empty as a tomb for months and months. The children climbed higher than the sun’s rays that afternoon.

In julius caesar did portia use effective strategies when she tried to persuade brutus to tell her the truth?

Select all the correct answers. in which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject? a.she had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the ministry of public instruction. b.natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies. c.the girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. d.she dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station.

Based on the passage witch values seem to be most important to the maori