Choose the word that best matches the word italics.
tatiana →entreated← her parents to take her to the amusement park for her birthday.

Which type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect, direct, both or neither

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme

What details from a story best develop the theme? readers' prior knowledge the author's motivations for writing descriptions of time and place character motivation and plot