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In “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, death is personified as 

Read the following line:      “The tree’s branches lifted the wind and cradled the gusts of air.” This is an example of which literary device? 

In “Two Kinds” Jing-Mei’s mother wants her to 

Before an olfactory receptor can detect an odorant, it has to ___.

The parasympathetic nervous system is especially active during which physiological state?

Parasympathetic effects are localized and short-lived because ___.

Parasympathetic effects are localized and short-lived because ___.

Sensory neurons synapse in the posterior horn of the spinal cord with an interneuron known as a _____.

Damage to the insula is most likely to affect which of the following senses?

The spinal tract that relays information concerning pain and temperature to the CNS is the ___.