What literary tool is mark twain using when he humorously describes the conflict between the new, well-dressed boy and tom to reveal the foolish things people say when they begin to argue with one another?   a. climax   b. personification   c. simile   d. satire

While doing your research, all of the following would be good secondary sources to use to develop a general overview about the vietnam war, except: a. the encyclopedia britannica b. an interview with a veteran of the war c. a textbook on the history of the 20th century d. an online resource such as ‘wikipedia.org’ or ‘’

What is the function of an economic system?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)