Which phrase is an example of a simile?
“The seen, the known / dissolve in iridescence”
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.”
“Here is the aura of that world / each of us has lost.”
“Here is the shadow of its joy.”

According to the speaker, decisions in west african villages are made through discussions led by heroic nobles wise historians elected representatives appointed chiefs

According to the veteran prisoners, why was wiesel lucky that he was brought to the camp late

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.