Read the excerpt from "as good as gold."

meanwhile, sam tried to ignore his brother’s fuss. he glanced over at the dog working on what would have been a week's worth of breakfasts and felt nothing but pity. the dog looked too small and thin to be out alone in the northern wilds. as sam stared at the dust-colored mutt, the dog noticed and gazed back at him, one ear up and the other ear in what seemed to be a permanent flop. sam couldn't but chuckle as he the grumbling jake clean up.

which best describes how the dog looks?

healthy and strong
mean and aggressive
hungry and harmless
wild and ferocious

Fill in the began as a rejection of classicism. (choose the best answer) a. realism b. confucianism c. romanticism d. the information age

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?