You are Tom Robinson. Today is your first day of your trial. The courtroom is packed. You just watched everyone march in from your cell window. Pretend your wife just called right before the trial begins. Describe the courtroom environment to her. What do you see?

Read the paragraph from nick’s personal narrative. standing alone in my family’s barn, i thought about how much hard work and time my parents had invested—how much hard work and time we had all invested—in maintaining a fully operational farm. i did not remember a time when my clothes had not reeked of manure or my hair had not held fast to brittle pieces of straw. what would happen if my parents had to sell the farm so we could move closer to my grandparents? just as i was attempting to imagine a life in the city, a sudden commotion erupted and interrupted my thoughts. with animals squawking and dust flying, i scrambled to pinpoint the source of this unexpected intrusion. in seconds that felt more like minutes, i was successful . . and i could scarcely believe what my eyes were seeing. which element of a personal narrative would be best for nick to include next?

In what critical way is the protagonist dynamic in "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella"?

Metonymy is best defined as a figure of speech in which