Which transition is the best choice to start the bolded sentence? Some people are born superstars, really! Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer is a perfect example. his hands and feet are bigger than normal, which helps him move quickly through the water. ___ he can reach his arms higher above his head than can other swimmers.

A However
B Moreover
C Finally
D Equally important

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism