Excerpt from Dracula
Bram Stoker
"Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of
the trees crashed together as we swept along."
*Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the
trees crashed together as we swept along."
What figure of speech is used in this sentence from Dracula?
A)
a simile
a metaphor
an oxymoron
personification

Occurrences of major earthquakes are considered unusual, but minor tremors happen frequently. which word is an adjective?

Mario is reading a book where the narrator only describes the point of view of pip, one of the characters. m and feelings. which type of narrator does this describe?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.