Read this sentence from the main text: furthermore, mucus is not just the nasty gunk you see when you are sick. what purpose does this sentence serve in the text as a whole? #1 it connects the previous supporting detail to a new point. #2 it connects a new point to the final paragraph. #3 it connects the paragraph to the text about names. #4 it suggests there is one final point to discuss regarding mucus.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. for a long time she held her neck erect; then her head sank, slowly. her ribs swelled with a mighty heave and she went over. as it is used in this excerpt from “the man who was almost a man,” the phrase “went over” most likely means died escaped jumped vomited

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

What is the metaphor used for captain beatty? what is he being compared to?