In this paragraph what is the authors explicit message about his inspiration for Merlin’s voice

I believe that the explicit message is that the author’s inspiration for Merlin’s voice was the owl outside his window.

In the excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out," T. A. Barron states that he had difficult time finding the right voice, but at the end, the inspiration was the sound of an owl outside his window: “I finally heard the voice of Merlin thanks to a surprising source: the haunting, mysterious hooting of a great horned owl outside the window of my Colorado home.”

Answer:

His inspiration was the owl outside his window.

Explanation: I got it right on the test.

life is a bowl of cherries is this sentence simile,metaphor, or a analogy

Read this excerpt from a blog.
When I eliminated gluten from my diet, my energy level increased. My morning bagel used to make me want a nap around 10:00 a.m., but this week was different. I started each day with an egg, and I was satisfied until lunchtime. A one-egg omelet with peppers and onions was the most flavorful option I tried. I’ll post full menus and pictures tomorrow.
How does the writer of this blog promote change?
A.by sharing personal information

B.by explaining researched facts

C.by raising awareness of a cause

D.by criticizing existing policies

What are your strengths in public speaking? What areas would you like to improve? Do you have any fears or anxieties when it comes to presenting in front of an audience? Put yourself in the role of presenting and think about how you will handle the situation.

Will give the brainiest. Has anyone read the book "Cry the Beloved Country"? The only reason I ask is because I have a few questions about it and I was hoping someone on here has read the book and could help answer some of my questions.

Question 1 multiple choice worth 5 points
Read the opening lines of "Flame is a freckle food" by Emily Dickinson. Answer the questions that follows:
flame is a freckle food
upon a shifting plate
the first line in this stanza features an example of
A.alliteration
B.assonance
C.consonance
D.repetition

(1) Many American men were drafted during World War II. (2) Many other men volunteered to serve. (3) In fact, so many men entered the armed services that professional baseball experienced a shortage of good players. (4) Philip K. Wrigley had an interesting solution to the problem. (5) He started a new league. (6) It was called the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). (7) To find good players, he scouted women’s softball clubs. (8) They were very popular at that time. (9) The AAGPBL was a hit. (10) In 1948, the year in which the league reached its high point of popularity, more than a million fans came to watch AAGPBL games. (11) The league produced many fine players, including Mary “Bonnie” Baker. (12) Dorothy Kamenshek was also a fine player. (13) After World War II ended, the AAGPBL declined in popularity. (14) In 1954, the league was disbanded. Which is the most effective way to combine sentences (7) and (8)? To find good players, he scouted women’s softball clubs, which were very popular at that time. To find good players, he scouted women’s softball clubs very popular at that time. To find good players, he scouted, women’s softball clubs being very popular at that time. To find good players, he scouted women’s softball clubs, and they were very popular at that time.

In Twelve Angry Men, what is the point that Eight makes about a passing elevated train?

Read the scenario. Jeremy wants to revise a sentence to create sense of playfulness. Which revision uses precise language to achieve the desired effect? A. The dog came into the house B. The dog galloped into the house C. The dog walked into the house D. The dog is going into the house.

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe". The blood leaped high; it spouted like a broken leaden pipe that, through a slender hole where it is worn, sends out a long and hissing stream as jets of water cleave the air. Which statement best describes the use of poetic elements in the excerpt? The figurative language describes the violence of the scene. The predictable rhyme scheme emphasizes the quick action. The symbolism of the blood suggests it is not real. The steady rhythm imitates a funeral march.

Tara was so tired after softball practice that she __________ and went to bed.
Which word provides the most vivid description?
A) lumbered
B) ran
C) sashayed
D) went

The rain falling furiously from the sky in great sheets. Fragment or Sentence ?

Which word is spelled correctly? a. hieght b. conciet c. reciept d. inefficient

"At last, after what seemed a long time—it might have been five seconds, I dare say—he sagged flabbily to his knees. His mouth slobbered. An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him."

In three to five sentences, explain the methods used by the author to create sentence fluency and rhythm in this passage.

In “who knows if the moon’s,” what is the moon seen as? (1 point) a city a balloon a cloud a sailboat

Which contraction is NOT formed correctly? a. he + had = he’d b. I + have = I’ve c. you + are = you’re d. would + not = would’nt

What is the author’s purpose in writing "A Modest Proposal"?

Debbie is writing a paper about author John Steinbeck. What must she do regardless of whether she quotes or paraphrases the evidence from her primary and secondary sources? ( can pick more than one answer)

1: she should provide context for the evidence and explain how its connected to the claim.
2: She should ask readers to refer to the sources for more information about the topic.
3: She should include all sources in her bibliography and use in-text citations to reference them in her paper.
4: She should set the evidence cited apart by using separate lines or quotation marks.
5: She should provide footnotes with additional information to further support the evidence.

Which passage most effectively uses transitions? A. Many people think that self-esteem is the most important gift a parent can give a child; as a result, the truth is that self-esteem can't be given, since it is something that individuals must achieve for themselves. B. Many people think that self-esteem is the most important gift a parent can give a child; however, the truth is that self-esteem can't be given, because it is something that individuals must achieve for themselves. C. Many people think that self-esteem is the most important gift a parent can give a child; next, the truth is that self-esteem can't be given, in fact it is something that individuals must achieve for themselves. D. Many people think that self-esteem is the most important gift a parent can give a child; on the other hand, the truth is that self-esteem can't be given, similarly it is something that individuals must achieve for themselves.

Read the passage.

excerpt from "Here Is New York" by E.B. White

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep. Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch. He is desk-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the Park, see the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond, and the boys along the shore fishing for minnows, girls stretched out negligently on the shelves of the rocks; he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains. He has fished in Manhattan’s wallet and dug out coins, but has never listened to Manhattan’s breathing, never awakened to its morning, never dropped off to sleep in its night. About 400,000 men and women come charging on to the Island each week-day morning, out of the mouths of tubes and tunnels. Not many among them have ever spent a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays. They tend their furnaces in Westchester and in Jersey, but have never seen the furnaces of the Bowery, the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights. They may work in the financial district downtown and never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center—the daffodils and grape hyacinths and birches and the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring. Or they may work in a midtown office and may let a whole year swing round without sighting Governors Island from the sea wall. The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover. His entrances and exits are more devious than those in a prairie-dog village; and he calmly plays bridge while buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River. The Long Island Rail Road alone carried forty million commuters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps.

The terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels farther, in the end, than a commuter. Irving Berlin’s journey from Cherry Street in the lower East Side to an apartment uptown was through an alley and was only three or four miles in length; but it was like going three times around the world.

Which quotation from the essay helps to create the humorous tone in "Here is New York"?

“Not many among them have ever spent a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays.”

“He is desk-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the Park, see the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond,…”

“…it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer,…”

“The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep.”

which of the following is included in an evaluation but not included in a summary

When taking messages for another person, a good rule to follow is to A. politely inform the caller that the person for whom the message is being taken probably won't return the call for a few days. B. suggest that someone else at the company might be better suited to assist the caller. C. ask the caller if you've spelled his or her name correctly. D. write down the number that appears on a Caller ID screen rather than the number the caller gives.

Which of these was a result of the Emancipation Proclamation? Apex

A. The slaves were granted the right to vote.
B. The Northerners were inspired to fight harder.
C. The Southern states officially separated from the Union.
D. The insurgents surrendered to the North.

A writer might use a Venn diagram to A. compare and contrast two or more ideas. B. develop the main character's mood. C. construct a series of lists. D. examine the steps in a process.

The women believe that the news media are misusing data to create a number of crisis.

Which underlined irregular plural noun is misspelled?

What is a literary analysis essay?

Descriptive essays often use a​ _____ style of organization.

Which of the following apply to a keyword outline? Select all that apply. formal outline information should be accurate and effective key words for conclusion only enough information to trigger memory complete sentences for transitions
Which of the following apply to a keyword outline? Select all that apply.
formal outline
information should be accurate and effective
key words for conclusion
only enough information to trigger memory
complete sentences for transitions

Plz Help. I have a hard time with citing evidence.
Will mark brainliest.
If schools are to remain useful to students, they need to teach public speaking to increase students’ ability to succeed in the workplace. If students in college feel nervous about delivering speeches in a classroom, how are they to succeed in careers that will inevitably require public speaking in many forms: delivering a speech, giving a presentation, or training new employees? In many jobs, public speaking begins even before the job is offered; students may find that they must speak, not just sufficiently but eloquently, in front of an interview panel. Those with the skills and willingness to use public speaking skills are also more likely to take advantage of opportunities that may lead to promotions. Public speaking skills are not only useful for getting the job, but in many cases, it is essential to keeping and moving up in a career.

Directions: On a separate sheet of paper or in a word processor, effectively integrate the evidence you evaluated in Section II. Rewrite or add lines when necessary and be sure to use the citations provided. Lines are provided below in case you decide to print this page.

Why is Alan Campbell particularly qualified to help Dorian dispose of Hallward's body?

In Hamlet, when Hamlet sees the Ghost, it is symbolic of the _____ a0 he must seek.