Read this passage from The Phantom Tollbooth What literary device does the author use to make the
setting drearier?
The sky became quite gray and, along with it, the whole
countryside seemed to lose its color and assume the
same monotonous tone. Everything was quiet, and
even the air hung heavily. The birds sang only gray
songs and the road wound back and forth in an endless
series of climbing curves,
O a homophone
o an idiom
o onomatopoeia
O a pun

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.