1) Which is a compound-complex sentence? A) The dog began to bark at the visitor, and the cat ran under the chair. B) The teacher had just started the math lesson when the fire alarm bell began to ring. C) After they cleaned their rooms, the boys planned to go swimming, but it started to rain. D) Both the boys and the girls were excited about going to the mountains and spending the night. Eliminate2) I fell asleep while I was reading last night, and now I have a sore neck.
Which clause from the sentence above is a dependent clause?
A)
I fell asleep
B)
now I have a sore neck
Eliminate
C)
while I was reading last night
D)
There are no dependent clauses in this sentence.

What is the following simile comparing?"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." -Carl Sandburg
A. Crying and living
B. Living and eating onions
C. Peeling layers of an onion and living life
D. Peeling an onion and eating an onion

The narrator wears a ..?a) wrinkled face
b) modest bowtie
3) porcelain pin
4) morning coat

Dan Flood’s “Solar Flare” and Dana Aston’s “Sun Daze” are two best-selling novels that tell a similar story.Which points of comparison support the topic sentence?

A)advertisements, author interviews, Web sites
B)prices, cover art, word choice
C)reviewers, authors’ education, publishers
D)themes, characters, plots

The faucet water is extremely hot.
Adverb:


Word(s) Modified:

What is the definition of a round character? A character with certain physical attributes a character with complex personality traits a character whose actions conflict with the main character a character that acts predictably throughout the story

Read the following excerpt from Grendel."You're all crazy," I bellowed, "you're all insane!" I'd never howled more loudly in my life. Darts like hot coals went through my legs and arms and I howled more loudly still. And then, just when I was sure I was finished, a shriek ten times as loud as mine came blaring off the cliff. It was my mother! She came roaring down like thunder, screaming like a thousand hurricanes, eyes as bright as dragonfire, and before she was within a mile of us, the creatures had leaped to their horses and galloped away. Big trees shattered and fell from her path; the earth trembled. Then her smell poured in like blood into a silver cup, filling the moonlit clearing to the brim, and I felt the two trees that held me falling, and I was tumbling, free, into the grass.
Select one example of figurative language that the author uses in this excerpt. Identify the type of figurative language used and then explain what the figurative language means and analyze what it tells the reader about Grendel's mother. Be sure to use specific details from the excerpt to support your ideas.