Read the excerpt below from A tree grows in Brooklyn and answer the question that followsmost children brought up in Brooklyn before the first world war remember Thanksgiving day there was a particular tenderness it was the day children went around Gaga muffin and slamming Gates wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask.

based on the excerpt what is the author's purpose in writing?

A. to inform
B. to persuade
C. to publish
D. to analyze ​

It's best to start at a higher level when participating in competitive sports.

Which figurative language comes across most clearly in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"?The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

By highlighting absence in these lines from a poem, which technique is used to add emotional intensity

What ia verb with definition

Which words in the sentence are the adverb clause? As long as you're going to the store, would you buy some bananas? A: as long as you're going to the store B: would you buy some bananas C: as you're going to the D: to the store

The root word of volcano meansA. god of fire.
B. mountain.
C. great storm.
D. angel of death.