Sitting on the porch swing with her eyes closed and her headphones on, ana saw her mother leaning out of the kitchen door. her mom gestured for her to remove her headphones and said, "i'd like you to complete your homework before you begin lounging around this afternoon." "i just need a break, mom," ana replied. "there may be time for a break later, but algebra needs your attention now," insisted her mother as she turned and headed inside. with a deep sigh, ana removed her headphones. she reached for her discarded backpack, wishing she could have just a little unstructured time. what is the conflict in the excerpt? character versus self character versus character character versus society character versus nature

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

Grammar: sequence of verp tenses quiz active the is used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.