Read the excerpt from president roosevelt’s state of the union address.
i cannot prophesy. i cannot tell you when or where the united nations are going to strike next in europe. but we are going to strike—and strike hard. . of course, there have been disturbances and inconveniences—and even hardships. and there will be many, many more before we finally win. yes, 1943 will not be an easy year for us on the home front. we shall feel in many ways in our daily lives the sharp pinch of total war.
the repeated use of the word reinforces the strength and power of the united nations.
1) we
2) strike
3) cannot
4) many

But one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in paragraph 3, which rhetorical technique is being used to add emphasis? a) overstatement b) understatement c) parallel structure d) rhetorical question

[he] let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. a piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. how slowly it appeared to move! what a sluggish stream! what contrasting words are used to describe the stream in this passage?

What does"after getting my report card i knew it was time to hit the books mean