Ipeered inside the luminous tent and instantly recognized numerous people from the town. they gazed toward the top of the tent at a courageous trapeze artist who swung perilously above them. i took a seat beside the door and held my breath waiting for the next act. crack! i almost jumped out of my seat when i heard the ringmaster’s whip splinter the air. throughout the night, the entertainers kept the crowd engaged with a variety of wild and crazy events. then, the carnival characters took their bows and ended their performance. afterward, the townspeople walked wearily, but jubilantly, home. "[w]hen i heard the ringmaster's whip splinter the air" is an example of which literary device? a) alliteration b) symbol c) auditory imagery d) rhyme

Someone answer soon i need it for this test! select the correct text in the passage.which line in this excerpt uses the logical fallacy of ad hominem?

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?