Gina is reading a book about the history of Italian cooking. Read part of the book's foreword: Although many Americans know that Italian food consists of more than pizza with tomato sauce, most are not aware that the assortment of food eaten in Italy is as varied as the country itself. This book documents the breadth of this cultural treasure - from almond cake to zeppole -the whole nine yards. What does the author mean by the phrase the whole nine yards?

A everything

B an assortment of toppings

C a nine-yard long zeppole

D an Italian food item everyone likes​

Metonymy is best defined as a figure of speech in which

What strategy is a student using when associating the word disposition with a picture of a model posing?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .