You've seen how authors use specific language to convey meaning and tone. Let's put your knowledge to the test. Read the excerpt from “RefrigaMatic 1234.” Select the two sentences that use figurative or connotative language to describe an action or event.

Her mom's harried voice trickled down the stairwell. “Did you find any boxes?”
Aaliyah clambered to her hands and knees and peeked out of RefrigaMatic 1234. "No," she called back, relieved to hear the footsteps above her head moving steadily in the opposite direction. It was better if her mom didn't see the box—she'd just want to throw it away or, even worse, cut it up for packing materials.

Arrange the events in ivan ilyich's life, which are described in chapters 1–4 of leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich, in chronological order. ivan ilyich becomes assistant public prosecutor, a position that he serves in for seven years. ivan ilyich meets zachar ivanovich in st. petersburg and receives a guaranteed appointment in the department of justice. ivan ilyich graduates from the school of law and qualifies for the tenth rank of the civil service. ivan ilyich becomes a public prosecutor and is transferred to another province. ivan ilyich is offered the post of examining magistrate in a russian province.

Match each excerpt to the epic characteristics it contains

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination