2. Which statement describes the connection between the selection and the oxymoron "minor miracle"? (RI 10.5) a. When one's mentors are peers, trouble ensues
b. All of the author's students were still teenagers
C. The author's encounter with poetry changed his life forever
d. The author knew from an early age he wanted to teach

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile