Jameelah's parties were a circus. But instead of lions jumping through hoops of fire, it would be George showing up wearing a foot-high paper top hat.
Instead of bags of peanuts, there would be a huge spread of gourmet food,
which usually included my favorite: pigs in a blanket. There were clowns, but
they were disguised as kids from our school trying to out-do each other with
their goofy antics. If you missed one of Jameelah's parties, you'd be hearing
about it for months afterward,
Check Your Understanding
Attempt 1 of 2
Which best describes the meaning of the extended metaphor in this passage?

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

In which sentence does the underlined adverb modify a verb? (i’ll put the words that are underlined in caps) a. water young plants often. b. water young plants rather often. c. we generally water young plants often. d. water very young plants often.

Which of the following statements is true? tissues are less complex than the organs they form. organs must be made of the same type of tissue. a group of related cells working together is called an organ. organs are less complex than the cells they are made from.