Using your own words, try your best to re-write these sentences. they can be re-written in many different ways. 1. due to the pressure that society puts on children too much too soon to become successful by their standards, some children fail because of the pressure which they bare is too much for them, in a world they are not ready for. 2. most of the speech students there seemed disinterested as i looked throughout the audience with few exceptions. 3. everyone has weaknesses, including myself, more than i could count on my hands, whether they be large or small. 4. in other words, i feel our experiences are judges on second level with the knowledge and brain density it stands in judgment before. 5. my responsibility stems from horses which have been a great attribute in much of my development.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Read the excerpt from "the crab that played with the sea." now, while the two were talking together, pau amma the crab, who was next in the game, scuttled off sideways and stepped into the sea, saying to himself, ‘i will play my play alone in the deep waters, and i will never be obedient to this son of adam.' nobody saw him go away except the little girl-daughter where she leaned on the man's shoulder. and the play went on till there were no more animals left without orders; and the eldest magician wiped the fine dust off his hands and walked about the world to see how the animals were playing. which conclusion about pau amma does this excerpt support? he likes swimming. he is afraid of humans. he thinks he is better than other animals. he enjoys spending time with other animals.

Match the phrases with the literary techniques used. tiles: grim and greedy he grasped the whale-path the ruler-of-man they drive their keels o'er the darkling wave pairs: synecdoche alliteration kenning epithet