Tom suggested we sign up for the ice hockey team. Easy for him to say! Sure, let me go dazzle the opponent with my awkward, unsteady skating. Better yet, let me play goalie. I'm sure that a stuffed mannequin would stop more goals than I could. "You can go ahead," was all I said.

What is the meaning behind the sarcasm in this passage?

A.The speaker really wants to join the ice hockey team.
B.The speaker thinks the opponent will be impressed with his skating.
C.The speaker has little confidence in his ability to play hockey.
D.The speaker is jealous of Tom's athletic ability.

The meaning behind the sarcasm in this passage is that the speaker has little confidence in their ability to play hockey, which is in Option C, as the speaker's exaggerated statements and self-deprecating humor suggest that they feel inadequate and unskilled.

The passage contains several instances of sarcasm, which is a form of irony that is intended to convey the opposite of what is said, often for humorous or rhetorical effect. In this case, the speaker is using sarcasm to express their lack of confidence in their ability to play hockey. For example, when the speaker says, "Sure, let me go dazzle the opponent with my awkward, unsteady skating," they are using sarcasm to suggest that their skating is far from dazzling and is in fact quite awkward and unsteady.

Hence,  The meaning behind the sarcasm in this passage is that the speaker has little confidence in their ability to play hockey, which is in Option C,

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Which statement summarizes this excerpt best? Cassius has recently become angrier with Brutus and is not willing to be the loving brother-in-law and friend he has always been. Cassius has noticed that lately Brutus seems to be angry with him instead of being the loving brother-in-law and friend he has always been. Brutus has noticed that Cassius seems to be angry with him, but Cassius denies that his feelings for Brutus have changed. Cassius is trying to convince Brutus that they are better friends than they really are in an effort to get closer to Caesar. Mark this and return

What does the excerpt below tell you about the king's decision to marry the miller's daughter? The king came in the morning, and, finding all he wanted, was forced to keep his word; so he married the miller's daughter, and she really became queen. He didn't really want to marry her. He realized how much he loved her. He thought she would make a good queen. He admired that she was a hard worker.

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Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”
All European visitors were struck by the Oba’s position as both the spiritual and the secular head of the kingdom, and the Benin brass plaques are principally concerned with praising him.
What context clue provides an antonym for the word secular? “visitors”
“spiritual”
“kingdom”
“concerned”

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Many people consider research papers challenging and profoundly dry. If you could write a research paper about any topic, in any mode of your choosing, what kind of research paper would you find interesting, engaging, and maybe even fun? Comment on other students' ideal research papers.
Please answer in complete sentences.

Making an inference means filling in a text’s missing information using context clues

choices

*true

*false

*The inference statement is true, but the conclusion statement is false.

*the conclusion statement is true, but the inference statement is false.

Read these lines from the poem.

The pillow quakes and quivers

Like pudding on a plate.

How does the simile affect the meaning of this poem?


A.The speaker can’t sleep because the pillow is covered in cat hair.


B.The cat is purring because it ate pudding.


C.The cat is on the speaker’s pillow, moving around and purring, which keeps the speaker awake.


D.The speaker is restless and keeps shifting on the pillow and disturbing the cat.

Which of these has a warming effect on earth ?
A. More evaporation of water due to warmer temperature causes low, thick clouds to form.
B. As snow and ice melts, the underlying surfaces absorbs more solar radiation
C. Earth’s ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
D. Rising carbon dioxide levels spur plant growth cause increase carbon dioxide absorption

reread friar laurence's speech in scene 3 lines 223-269 what various and possibly conflicting motivation does he have for making these remarks

which information is not necessary to solve this story problem?addison had $80 to spend. she bought 5 cds and 3 magazines on saturday. on sunday, she bought 3 more magazines. she spent a total of $72.how much money did addison have left? a.number of cds and magazines addison bought b.amount of money addison spent c.amount of money addison had to spend

Which of the following best describes Lady Capulet?


1. She is calm and compassionate, but easily swayed by her husband.

2. She is strong but a little stubborn: she is comforting and kind to Juliet.

3. She is vengeful, bloodthirsty, and childish.

4. She is prone to vengeance and a little emotionally confused, but she backs her daughter through adversity.

Which lines in this except from the poem consumption by William Cullen Bryant reflect the theme of the poem

When the boy must turn himself into the wind, he must speak to several elements, including the wind and the heavens. These elements, in turn, speak back.

How does personification affect the meaning in this scene?

Personification causes the reader to sympathize with the boy.

It creates a vivid picture so the reader can experience the boy’s emotions.

It demonstrates that everything in the world has its own personality.

Personification reinforces the theme that everything is connected.

Why don't the people on shore rescue the men?

Im my last duchess by Robert browning how did the duchess displease the duke

Why did the man hang himself in the beginning of things fall apart?

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Read the following quotation. Helping others is the key to happiness. Think carefully about this statement. Write an essay explaining your own ideas about the key to happiness. Be sure to— clearly state your thesis organize and develop your ideas effectively choose your words carefully edit your writing for grammar, mechanics, and spelling

SAM: . . . They’d phoned for your Mom, but you were the only one at home. And do you remember how we did it? You went in first by yourself to ask permission for me to go into the bar. Then I loaded him on to my back like a baby and carried him back to the boarding house with you following behind carrying his crutches. (Shaking his head as he remembers.) A crowded Main Street with all the people watching a little white boy following his drunk father on his back! P. 36 According to this passage, what does this interaction say about Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Lobsters are invertebrates with a hard protective exoskeleton. Like most arthropods, lobsters must molt in order to grow, which leaves them vulnerable. During the molting process, several species change color. Lobsters have 10 walking legs; the front three pairs bear claws, the first of which are larger than the others. Although, like most other arthropods, lobsters are largely bilaterally symmetrical, some possess unequal, specialized claws. Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of haemocyanin which contains copper. Maybe there are other animals that have blue blood as well.
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Which sentence is unnecessary and could be eliminated without disturbing the flow and information of the paragraph?
A) Maybe there are other animals that have blue blood as well.
B) Lobsters are invertebrates with a hard protective exoskeleton.
C) Like most arthropods, lobsters must moult in order to grow, which leaves them vulnerable.
D) Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of haemocyanin which contains copper.

What instrument is used to take readings at specied intervals for later review?

A morality play is a moral allegory in dramatic form. What characteristics make this play an allegory? the story about Everyman

1. which phrase from the excerpt supports the idea that the rhythem of jazz music played an important role in kerouacs writing styles

2. which of the following choices best presents a counterclaim to the argument presented in this excerpt?

3. read the excerpt from Amy tans essage mouther tongue
which phrase from the excerpt uses informal English

Read the following sentence.

Leonardo da Vinci was enthralled by flying, so much so that he sketched flying machines, which were indeed ahead of their time, but if they had been built, they probably never would have flown in real life.

What is the main error in this sentence?

A.
length – The sentence should be broken into separate sentences to be more understandable.
B.
conciseness – The sentence has too many unnecessary adjectives and adverbs.
C.
order – This sentence contains misplaced modifiers.
D.
parallel structure – This sentence is not consistent with how the parts of speech are presented.

Julius Caesar Act I

Identify three lines of dialogue in the exposition that show that there is unrest in Rome.

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In three to five complete sentences, describe how the inhabitants of Mars felt about humans on earth. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

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After you’ve been ripped into shreds of organic molecules, the molecules themselves begin to feel the continually growing tidal forces. Eventually, they too snap apart, creating a stream of their constituent atoms. And then, of course, the atoms themselves snap apart, leaving an unrecognizable parade of particles that, minutes earlier, had been you.

But there is more bad news.

All parts of your body are moving toward the same spot — the black hole’s center. So while you’re getting ripped apart head to toe, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube.

To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die … we add the term “spaghettification.”

—“Death by Black Hole,”

Should we treat teens who commit a crime as an adult?

For each sentence in the paragraph box below, replace the blank with an adjective that tells "how many."
1. _____ plants survived the cold weather.
2. She needed _____ people to volunteer.
3. In the aquarium were _____ fish.
4.The Arctic has been explored by _____ people.
5.I saw _____ camels at the circus.

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You are applying for a position with this company and have held four jobs and volunteer for two different groups. What is the best way to list your work experience?

You should choose the three most relevant jobs and leave out the others.

You should include all jobs and volunteer work by attaching another page.

You should start with your earliest job and list the others chronologically.

You should include the three most recent jobs and leave out the rest.

It is true that some uninformed people will cast ballots, but it is also likely that mandatory voting will motivate those voters who haven't become involved before to educate themselves, now that they need to vote. What type of claim does the author use? A. Claim of value B. Claim of definition C. Claim of cause and effect D. Claim of policy

How does the misplaced modifier in “I wished for happiness at the fountain” create confusion?

by making the order of events confusing to the reader
by suggesting that the person wanted happiness to be only at the fountain
by saying that there was no reason for the person to take longer than usual
by suggesting that the fountain wished the person happiness