In para. P, Silvia Zanon says that moving to a smaller location was “like leaving the house where you were born.” This is an example of what type of figurative language?

“Venice will end up as simply a theme part for the rich” is an example of literal language.

The sentence “Tourists flood the city of Venice” is an example of what figurative language?

In the sentence “Tourism in Venice generates $2 billion a year in revenue, probably an underestimate because so much business is done off the books”, the phase off the books indicates that much of the tourist business in Venice is done

What is the main idea of “City Under Siege”?

In Paragraph H, why does Gulledge make an analogy with heating water on a stove? H      As the oceans warm, they’re giving off more water vapor. “Everybody knows that if you turn up the fire on your stove, you evaporate the water in a pot more rapidly,” says Jay Gulledge, senior scientist at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a think tank3 in Arlington, Virginia. During the past 25 years satellites have measured a 4 percent average rise in water vapor in the air. The more water vapor, the greater the potential for intense rainfalls. The amount of rain falling in intense downpours—the heaviest one percent of rain events—has increased by nearly 20 percent during the past century in the U.S. “You’re getting more rain from a given storm now than you would have 30 or 40 years ago,” says Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Global warming, he says, has changed the odds for extreme weather.

In Paragraph L, why does Gulledge compare weather disasters to heart attacks? L      Weather disasters are like heart attacks, says Jay Gulledge. “When your doctor advises you about how to avoid a heart attack, he doesn’t say, ‘Well, you need to exercise, but it’s OK to keep smoking,’” he says. The smart approach to extreme weather is to attack all the risk factors, by designing crops that can survive drought, buildings that can resist floods and high winds, policies that discourage people from building in dangerous places—and of course, by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

What is the purpose of the first two paragraphs (Paragraphs A–B)?

The “standby mode” on electronic devices

How does the section Weather Gone Wild support the author’s argument?