Which best describes the author's technique in these sentences? it had been a perfect day for andrea. she gazed at her tall, strong, handsome boyfriend gregory. they drove up the winding road and finally reached gregory's palatial mansion. andrea felt like she had been invited to mount olympus with hercules. "this place really is fit for a greek god," she thought to herself. a) alliteration creates a soft sound and draws the reader into the story. b) the author uses humor to draw attention away from andrea's ambition. c) parallelism allows readers to see andrea's pleasant interactions. d) the author uses allusion and description to create visual images.

Using apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, brackets, and parentheses correctly correct each error in the use of apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, brackets, and parentheses in the following sentences. you may need to add, delete, or change marks of punctuation. doesnt this turkey look oh, no, the cat must have gotten up on the counter!

What is the theme of the poem, my tongue is divided into two by quique aviles? my tongue is divided into twoby virtue, coincidence or heavenwords jumping out of my mouthstepping on each otherenjoying being a voice for the messageexpecting conclusionsmy tongue is divided into twointo heavy accent bits of confusioninto miracles and accidentssaying things that hurt the heartdrowning in a language that lives, jumps, translatesmy tongue is divided by natureby our crazy desire to triumph and conquerthis tongue is cut up into equal piecesone wants to curse and sing out loudthe other one simply wants to ask for watermy tongue is divided into twoone side likes to partythe other one takes refuge in prayingtongueenglish of the funny soundstonguefunny sounds in englishtonguesounds funny in englishtonguein funny english soundsmy tongue sometimes acts like twoand it goes crazynot knowing which side should be speakingwhich side translatingmy tongue is divided into twoa border patrol runs through the middlefrisking wordsasking for proper identificationchecking for pronunciationmy tongue is divided into twomy tongue is divided into twoi like my tongueit says what feels righti like my tongueit says what feels rightby quique aviles

In at least two hundred words, discuss why "désirée's baby" is or is not relevant today.