Through these thick doors, heavily curtained with skins on the inside, it was impossible that any noise or suggestion should come from within to the person who should approach to raise the latch of one of them. What is the purpose of using strong verb phrases like "heavily curtained," "should approach," and "raise the latch"?
1. to show what the tiger could do
2. to show how easy it was to make a choice
3. to show the difficulty of the choice
4. to show the advanced construction methods

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

The ancient greek poet. homer, is credited with writing the odyssey. however, scholars still debate whether homer wrote the entire epic. what is the main reason for this uncertainty? o some sections of the epic are written in different poetic styles and forms. most ancient greeks could not read or write, so the epic was first written in latin ob och storytellers repeated the epic aloud for centuries before it was ever written down. od the epic was a fictional account, so the identity of its author may have been fictionalized as well.

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "