Why is it often more difficult to understand information when listening to a speech compared to reading something? - Speeches are always much more complicated than writing.
- It’s harder to concentrate on reading.
✅Speeches are happening in real time and you can’t go back to sections you missed.
- Writing always uses simpler words than speeches.

What is mostly clearly a disadvantage of living in a world dominated by the presence of televisions according to niel postman?

Which text evidence from the passage supports the theme that even nonliving things contain a life force? select two options.it was close and dry and dusty in the house of the gods.” “i have said the magic was gone but that is not true—it had gone from the magic things but it had not gone from the place.” “i felt the spirits about me, weighing upon me.” “nor had i ever slept in a dead place before—and yet, tonight, i must sleep there.” “when i thought of it, my tongue felt dry in my throat, in spite of my wish for knowledge.” “almost i would have gone down again and faced the dogs, but i did not.”

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism