Read the passage.

(1) can you imagine paying a year’s salary for a single tulip bulb? (2) during the early 1600s, wealthy investors in holland did just that. (3) it was all part of a craze for tulips that became known as tulip mania. (4) tulips, which were introduced to europe in about 1550, seemed unusual to europeans at that time. (5) tulips had deeper, more intense colors than did flowers native to europe. (6) tulips therefore became highly prized. (7) tulips’ popularity made tulips attractive to investors in holland, where the economy was flourishing. (8) tulip bulbs, the investors reasoned, would keep going up in price. (9) tulip bulbs did not hold their high prices, however. (10) tulip prices suddenly crashed in 1637. (11) tulip bulbs that had sold for huge prices suddenly sold for much, much less. (12) tulip mania was over.
which is the most effective way to vary the sentences in the passage?

invert sentences by putting verbs before subjects.

combine sentences with coordinating conjunctions.

begin sentences with different parts of speech.

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"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification