Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. In the following paragraph, decide whether a comma is needed in each blank.
When their little girl turned five
her parents threw a huge birthday party. They invited all the little girls in the neighborhood. The girls had fancy makeovers, they watched a circus with actual tigers
and acrobats
and they ate a gigantic five-tier strawberry cake.

Read the paragraph. the storm continued for hours. the thunder was so loud that it was deafening. lightening flashed in the sky, taking the night from completely black to light. the world was coming to an end. how does the use of figurative language the reader understand the paragraph’s meaning? 1 by the reader understand how scary the storm is 2 by the reader recognize how long the storm lasts 3 by the reader compare the storm with an object 4 by the reader remember a similar storm

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Suppose you connect a battery to a small light bulb with a single wire. what do you think will happen? explain your answer.