Which of the following excerpts from Orpheus and Eurydice is an example of hyperbole?
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...even the ice-hard heart of Hades melted.
...the music he played tore at the hearts of everyone who followed. ...Persephone, her face veiled by the shadows of that terrible place.
...even the ice-hard heart of Hades melted.
Which of the following is the antecedent of the pronoun theirs in the sentence below?
Rivers stopped flowing along the banks so that they could hear Orpheus, whose music was more harmonious than theirs.
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rivers
banks
music
music
Which of the following meanings of the vocabulary word broached is used in the following excerpt from Orpheus and Eurydice?
In vain, Orpheus tried to follow his bride. But this time the Underworld was firmly closed to him. No other mortal had broached it once, and certainly he was not going to get a second chance.
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raised
emerged from made a way into