Use the highlighter to identify the figurative language in the stanza. How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
—“I’m nobody! Who are you?”,
Emily Dickinson
What is the effect of Dickinson’s figurative language? Choose the best answer.
It makes people who are famous look like frogs relaxing in a luxurious bog.
It makes people who don’t want to be famous look like frogs sitting in a bog.
It makes people who want their name to be known look like frogs calling out to a bog

What does the word subordinate mean in this sentence? the office manager spoke to her subordinate in a cordial tone.

Me which theme is developed by the changing relationship between the narrator and his daughter in this excerpt ? as she grew older, she spent more of her time with girls. so much time indeed did she spend with them that she came no more, as she used to do, to her father’s room. i was scarcely on speaking terms with her. when mini and her father stop communicating, it develops the theme that children should not speak unless spoken to. as mini becomes more independent, it develops the theme that parents must learn to let go as their children grow up. as mini spends more time with friends, it develops the theme that young people are more influenced by peers than by parents. when mini and her father see each other far less often, it develops the theme that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Correct sentence. when her brother boarded the ship bound for america, christina stood on the pier and tearfully waved goodbye.