Children lose their baby teeth when their adult teeth come in. Most people will grow 32 adult teeth. But many people don't keep all of them. Many people will remove four of them: their wisdom teeth. Wisdom teeth are four "extra" teeth. No one really needs them. They grow behind all the other teeth, at the top and bottom and at the left and right sides of the mouth. These teeth can cause pain when they appear. They can even grow in sideways, pushing all the other teeth out of line. If this happens, a dentist will recommend removing the wisdom teeth. Dentists often suggest this for teenagers and people in their twenties. Drugs help the patient feel less pain while the teeth are taken out. Then, the patient must keep his or her mouth very clean while the mouth heals itself.

Select all the correct answers. why do authors use rhetorical devices in essays?

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.