Test if a date is a payday based on the day of the month (the 15th and the 30th are paydays).

Improved travle between colonies and africa

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".