Excerpt from Clashing Opinions at Controversial Commissioners Meeting
Kyle Ellington
SUSSEX COUNTY, SC - Tension oozed from the courthouse last night as debate raged during the bimonthly Sussex County
commissioner's meeting, which centered on the most hotly debated topic in the area: a proposed strip mall. The development
company, the county commissioners, and hundreds of concerned citizens gathered to deliberate on the issue.
While the meeting was intended to cover a plethora of topics, the proposed construction dominated the discussion. For four
hours, attendees debated, discussed, and dissented from one another.
Using this article, how could you determine the meaning of the word plethora?
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A. footnotes
B. context clues
C. plot structure
D. regional dialect

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. what literacy device does the poet use in this poem?