CHEYANNE MARIE

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is famous for its use of vivid figurative language and memorable sound devices. What do you think are several especially effective examples of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme...

1) Describe the similarities and differences between hyperbolas and ellipses. 2) List the properties of a hyperbola that allow you to sketch its graph.

For the graph of each function, find an equation of the line of symmetry and the coordinates of the vertex. Tell whether the value of the function at the vertex if a maximum or a minimum: a) y = -x^2 + 4x - 7; b) y = 2x^2 + 4x; c) y = -3x^2 - 18x + 5.