Read this excerpt from king arthur's socks: a comedy in one act.

vivien: (enters and lounges against the mantelpiece) arthur gone to new york again?

what do the stage directions reveal about vivien?

a. they illustrate vivien’s lack of ambition in life.
b. they imply vivien’s confident assertiveness.
c. they reveal vivien’s disdain for luxurious items.
d. they demonstrate vivien’s unhurried pace.

When the subject of a sentence performs the action in the sentence the verb in the sentence is in the what ?

Which literary device has emily dickinson used in these lines? how dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog to tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile