Philip Caputo wanted the romance of war, bayonet charges, and desperate battles against impossible odds during the Vietnam War. hilip Caputo imagined himself charging up a beachhead, like John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), and this led him to join the Marines to fight in Vietnam. Michael Herr commented on the performance of `grunts' when they knew that there was a camera crew nearby and how they imitated the stars of war movies. So powerful were cinematic images of battle that soldiers acted as though they were on the screen according to Herr.
Personification; It suggests that snow wears clothes
1. Wood is to fire as food is to <u>substance.</u> - Wood creates fire the same way food is substance for people (plus here you have to use a noun, and substance is the only noun here)
2. Grinning is to cheerful as teetering is to <u>precarious</u> - precarious is something that is not balanced, and can fall at any moment
3. Conniving is to scheming as terrible is to <u>abysmal</u> - abysmal is something that is extremely bad or terrible
4. Mournful is to sad as gluttonous is to <u>voracious</u> - voracious means insatiable, always craving more and more
Answer:
By filling the bicycle tires with plenty of air, Carmen found that she could race faster.
