A synonym for the word adamant could be?

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

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

In marian anderson sings the author begins the story by putting the reader right in the middle of the action what is the yearn for this type of organization