Read the excerpt from "digging." under my window, a clean rasping sound when the spade sinks into gravelly ground: my father, digging. i look down read the haiku by bashō. clear water— a tiny crab crawling up my leg. which statement best describes the similarities between the excerpt from "digging" and the haiku?

a. both use alliteration to connect ideas and create interesting sounds.
b. both are disjointed by the sound devices used by the poets.
c. both explore the topic of farming.
d. both shift from the present time to the past.

Alex barely reached the airport to catch his flight. but a minute later, he found that his passport was missing. he let out a loud groan and picked up his dropped luggage. as he walked through the airport exit, he saw his airplane soaring into the sky. the passage is in third-person point of view, which is revealed through the use of the subject, alex, and the use of the pronouns he and his. think about how much distance the narrator maintains toward the character. what type of third-person point of view is used? a; third-person limited b; third-person objective c; third-person omniscient

The author most likely uses the word monstrous rather than the word “unpleasant” because it has a more positive connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more negative connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more neutral connotation than the word “unpleasant.” almost the same connotation as the word “unpleasant.”

Nthe final analysis, the government has not done enough to protect the endangered species of the rain forest. in the passage above, the transition in the final analysis is used to