Identify the type of figurative language in the sentence.
the students were busy as beavers and had their shoulders to the wheel.
overstatement
cliché
irony

Which two sentences in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich reflect the author's belief that russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion?

Unit testactivelike sparkling stars strewn across the night sky.their brilliance catching the corner of my eye,making me slow down, just to look at them a little longer.in my awe of the sheer beauty of merely broken glass,i couldn't but thinkhow someone else's tragedycould be so beautiful to me.source: t., jennifer. "irony." teen ink. teen ink, n.d. web. cjuly 2011.the poem is an example ofexternal conflictinternal conflictdramatic ironysituational ironymark this and returnsave and exitsubmit

In act 5, which of the following seems to carry power in rome? a. violence b. rhetoric c. hope d. defeat