lack of thoroughness, depth of character, or serious thought
He made sure his daughters were well educated
The author has used rhetorical devices like parallelism to emphasize the miserable and hopeless condition of the migrants who were despised and hated but had no option but to swarm the town to fight hunger and survive.
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The chapter talks about the agrarians who were ruined by industrialization. Industries and technology pushed them on the roads. They moved in search of food and to give their families a meal to survive.
Parallelism has been employed at places to underline the misery, the dejection and distress.
For instance, in one of the paragraphs, just to stress on the simplicity of the agrarian folks before they were brought near to doom: ‘a simple agrarian folk who had not changed …….. who had not farmed. They had not grown up….’
This repetition of phrases and clauses is parallelism. The chapter is replete with such examples. It lends it unity and realism and appeals to emotions.
This is an example of irony:
Nothing is perfect. This was one of Mrs. Hopewell's favorite sayings. Another was: that is life! And still another, the most important, was: well, other people have their opinions too.
From the excerpt above, we see Mrs. Hopewell adding the name to the girl eventhough the girl feel that it's intrusive and she feel that she got to has a say about it. But despite that, Hopewell's favourite saying is other people have their opinions too.
Answer: B. She is elegant, refined, and quite unique or special.
Explanation:
Mrs. Flowers according to Maya Angelou in the book, <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em>, was described as a black aristocrat who could be compared to the richest white woman.
The entire process of her smile was so effortless and graceful that Maya wanted to thank her every time she did so and there was something unique and special about her such that she could appear warm on the coldest day and cool on a hot one with a sense of style that was refined and elegant.
