Since mark’s death, misery had taken over every aspect of their lives. it commanded attention. it was holding onto the helm and sarah desperately wanted to shove it out of the way and take back control. which explanation best describes the figure of speech being used in the sentences above? a) misery is being personified as taking over sarah's life. b) an idiomatic expression is creating a new meaning. c) a comparison is being made between two unlike objects. d) the repetition of the pronoun “it” places special emphasis on mark.

True or false: a writer uses ellipses to indicate an omission or that something has been left out of a direct quote.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Explain what the text says explicitly. reread paragraph 2 of "civil peace." what does this paragraph reveal about jonathan and his family's circumstances? cite textual evidence to support your response.