It was the day ian learned the importance of being a big brother. ian and his three-year old sister, reece, were at the neighborhood pool. before they got there, their mother told ian to take special care to watch out for reece who was still a quite weak swimmer. ian said he would, but later got distracted by a game of "gator." the next thing he knew, his mother dove into the water around him, and pulled his little sister up from the bottom. reece was fine after she coughed awhile. ian felt terrible. he felt very badly about not watching his sister. he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future. how can the italicized sentences in this paragraph be combined to eliminate repetition most effectively? a) ian felt very badly about not watching his sister, so he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future. b) feeling very badly, ian felt terrible about not watching his sister, so he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future. c) ian felt terrible. he felt very badly about not watching his sister, so he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future. d) ian felt terrible, and he felt very badly about not watching his sister. he made a resolution to be a better brother in the future.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,