Which is the correct, literal meaning of keen as it appears in the sentence below? The keen of the animals through the night caused chills to run up the spine of the lone camper.
A.
enthusiasm, eagerness

B.
mentally alert, clear–minded

C.
sharp, knife–like

D.
a lamenting, wordless cry

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift

Read the sentence. bose ikard, a former slave, managed one of the largest thriving ranches in texas. which is the verb of the sentence? managed thriving a former slave bose ikard