D. demonstrate how easily the world can change. Answers

9. CC. AC. ADC. DD. BA. BC. AB. BC. DD. AB. BB. DC. CD. BC. BBB. BB. DC. DD. CB
Explanations

1. The author's reference to Noah is a biblical allusion. Allusions are references to well-known people, places, or things. In this case, the author references the tale of Noah. In the Bible, Noah built an ark to save his family and two of every living creature from the Great Flood.
2. The author's reference to the battle between Titans and the Olympians is a mythological allusion. Allusions are references to well-known people, places, or things. In this case, the author references the Titans and the Olympians. The war between these two powerhouses was along, great struggle for control.
3. Figurative language is imaginative and symbolic. Authors use comparisons, imagery, and other literary techniques to better express an idea. The author uses the phrase "shattered like pieces of broken glass" to show how the negative ideas are losing their grip on Arush. The sentence that follows this reinforces this imagery as it shows how Arush's mind is a mirror.
4. The author uses figurative language in this phrase to describe how eagerly the audience awaits
Chen's performance. The reader can imagine people holding their breaths while swimming underwater. The audience feels as if it is participating in Chen's performance and is really eager.
5. Allusion is the act of alluding or making an indirect reference to something. In this passage, Beth is helping her friends with their schoolwork, just like Hermione helps both Harry and Ron with their schoolwork in the Harry Potter books and films.
6. Similes compare two unlike things. Poets and authors show the comparison by using the words like and as. In this case, the speaker in the poem is comparing the words of the lecture to a spider's web. Just as spiderwebs make it hard to clearly see what lies behind them, the teacher's lecture is hard to understand.
7. Similes compare two unlike things. Poets and authors show the comparison by using the words like and as. In this case, the speaker in the poem is comparing the way the students try to answer the question to a losing army in the battlefield. It suggests that they are both facing defeat.
8. In this passage, the phrase "bees stinging at her eyes and volcanoes erupting from her heart" is followed by a sentence that explains that Sarah feels betrayed by Betsy. The figurative language vividly describes Sarah's hot tears and hurt heart upon hearing Betsy who she thinks betrayed her.
9. The author's reference to Rapunzel is a literary allusion. Allusions are references to well- known people, places, or things. In this case, the author references the tale of Rapunzel, who is known for long flowing locks of hair.
10. Personification is a figure of speech in which things or animals are given human qualities or are represented as possessing human form. By giving the sea the human quality of being able to seethe author uses personification. If the sea can stare at the speaker with its wavy eyes, the speaker is jealous of it as if it were alive. The speaker certainly misses Maria who would rather spend more time with the sea than the one who loves her.

11. Similes compare two unlike things. Poets and authors show the comparison by using the words like and as. In this case, a surfboard is a flat object, and the comparison is that the movie is shallow, or without depth.
12. The question requires the reader to understand the phrase "broken piece of a violin" figuratively in context with the story. In this story, Sarah appears emotionally destroyed.
13. An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. "The eleventh houris an idiom that means the latest possible moment. You can figure out the meaning of this idiom by reading it in context. Sharon says that she wishes she hadn't waited until "the eleventh hour" to do her presentation because she never does her best work "at the last minute" From this statement, we can guess that "the eleventh hour" means "the last minute" or the "last possible moment" Few people do their best work under a time crunch
14. Figurative language is imaginative and symbolic. Authors use comparisons, imagery, and other literary techniques to better express an idea. The passage shows that Arush feels like his body has expanded after the stay at the hospital. Based on how he takes this change, his spirit feels weak while having to face his friends. This phrase shows how Arush feels huge and weak at the same time.
15. The author uses the phrase to describe the hot cocoa in a mug. Instead of saying the cocoa was hot and steamy, the author uses vivid details. By describing an ordinary thing (steam) with great beauty (ocean tides attracted to the moon, the author makes the passage livelier.
16. Figurative language is imaginative and symbolic. Authors use comparisons, imagery, and other literary techniques to better express an idea. Instead of just saying that his friends are thrilled for his return, the author describes the excitement of the crowd. The friends swarm at
Arush with the speed of bees whose hive has been stoned. The speed reflects the friends' excitement.
17. Similes compare two unlike things. Poets and authors show the comparison by using the words like and as. In this case, a box of rocks possesses no intelligence, and the comparison is quite insulting.
18. An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements. "Piece of cake" is an idiom that means extremely easy. You can figure out the meaning of this idiom by reading it in context. The narrator says that Sharon's presentation will be "apiece of cake" after he or she points out how hard Sharon has worked. If a person has worked hard at something, it makes sense that it will eventually become very easy to him or her.
19. Ab metaphorb is a figure of speech that compares two different things. Metaphors do not use

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