PLEASE HELP PARAPHRASE THIS!!! The idea of metamorphosis appears t hroughout the American biography ca non. Men and women begin in one location  and end up in another, never knowi ng how they got there and always ex pecting the unexpected, drifting ov er the ocean or across the plains u ntil they lodge against a marriage,  a land sale, a public position, or  a jail.​

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?

Select all the correct answers. which sentences contain a noun clause? rhett was unwilling to listen to what his friend told him. jade won the frisbee competition that was held in the city park. whoever said that the early bird catches the worm was right. the cowboy threw his lasso at the bull, which quickly threw it off and raced away.