Read the following passage from "resistance to civil government" by henry david thoreau: if the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, i say, break the law. let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. how does thoreau use metaphor in this passage? a. to change the focus of the essay to the reader b. to compare injustice to something concrete c. to demonstrate faulty logic in common injustices d. to trigger strong emotions from the reader

Writers try to let us know what is central to their writing. when we notice words such as "meanwhile," "afterward," "before," or "previously," an author is letting us know the order in which events happen. a paragraph that mostly uses these key words is arranged in what structural form?

Match the sentence to its correct verb mood. 1. if i were you, i would take advantage of the extra time you have. subjunctive 2. use your time wisely. indicative 3. he uses his time wisely. imperative

Which of these number is main idea? i need . (1) the health-care field is now a stable middle-class career path for a number of americans, especially women. (2) "we used to think about the men going out with their lunch bucket to their factory, and those were good jobs," said jane waldfogel, a professor at columbia university who studies work and family issues. (3) "what's the corresponding job today? (4) it's in the health-care sector." (5) in 1980, 1.4 million jobs in health care paid a middle-class wage; today, the figure is 4.5 million. (6) the pay of registered nurses—now the third-largest middle-income occupation and one that continues to be overwhelmingly female—has risen strongly. (7) the median salary of $61,000 a year in 2012 was 55 percent greater, adjusted for inflation, than it was three decades earlier. (8) back then, more than a quarter of middle-income jobs were in manufacturing, a sector long dominated by men. (9) now, as of 2015, it is just 13 percent. (10) tabitha waugh is one success story; the daughter of a teacher's aide and a gas station manager, she now works as a registered nurse for $27 an hour.