Read the sentence. Just as a river flows, with its unique but familiar course, its well-charted but troubling eddies and rapids, so our lives flow, all of a piece yet ever-changing.

What idea does the analogy explain?

A. For most people, life follows a calm and serene course.

B. It takes a skilled navigator to travel through life.

C. A human life consists of both routine and unexpected events.

D. Those who do not prepare in advance may invite disaster.

CORRECT ANSWER: C. A human life consists of both routine and unexpected events.

Which statement explains the relationship between literary devices and theme? literary devices are theme. literary devices distract from the theme. literary devices replace a theme. literary devices emphasize theme.

If one writes logically, he will prove his point. is this sentence correct or contains an unwarranted shift in person?

Time remaining 59: 46 which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? read the excerpt from the odyssey. out to sea again! ' my men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting.-while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of cicones this was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. they came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. so doom appeared to us, dark word of zeus for us, our evil days. the forces sent by cicones to fight odysseus and his men arrived during the early morning hours. odysseus and his men feasted on the animals they slaughtered while on the island of cicones the forces sent by cicones to stop the plundering of odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful odysseus views the forces sent by cicones as punishment from the greek god zeus. mark this and retum save and exit save and exit next sub subunit