20. which of the following is a complex sentence? a. as jake was reading the email from june yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention. b. i would like to visit the kinshasa, but i understand the city is unsafe for foreigners. c. check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by george will. d. i simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but i suppose i'm just too old to understand them.

Read this excerpt from "birdfoot's grampa.” the old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. what are readers most likely to infer from the phrase "blinded by our lights”? a the action in the poem takes place at night. b the weather makes the toads difficult to see. c another car is coming around the bend. d grampa is shining a lantern to see the toads.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

What effect does an author achieve b the language of the monstrous? y using words with strong connotations? how does this relate to