Why might graphic novels today be so popular? Please support your answer with evidence from the text. (The text comes from "The Greatest Graphic Novel Mystery", which is a repeat passage from ReadWorks.)

Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming which of these poetic devices is used here?

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile