A tercet is a three line stanza.
It's not a genre, nor a rhyming scheme, nor is it a figure of speech. Tercets usually have more than 4 syllables per line.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "He wants to win the contest and take the place of Ulysses." The statements that describe how Antinous is portrayed in this excerpt from Book 21 of the Odyssey is that <span>He wants to win the contest and take the place of Ulysses.</span>
The question is incomplete, here is the complete question.
Read the excerpt from The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba.
One Saturday, Gilbert met me in the library and we flipped through books we thought might be fun. I couldn't study all the time. One book that caught my attention was the Malawi Junior Integrated Science book, used by Form Four students. Hmm, I thought, and flipped it open. There were lots of pictures and diagrams, which I found easy to understand. I saw pictures of cancer and scabies and children stricken with kwashiorkor, like so many who'd wandered the country. One picture had a man in a shiny silver suit walking on the moon.
What is the primary idea that the details in the excerpt tell a reader about Kamkwamba?
Answer:
He is intelligent despite his lack of education.
Explanation:
William Kamkwamba was a young boy from Malawi, a country where a great hunger and drought prevailed. As a young uneducated boy he had a dream to bring water and electricity to his poor town but he was greatly mocked by people around him.
The primary idea from the excerpt tells the reader about William high level of intelligence due to his ability to understand the pictures and diagrams in the science textbook despite the fact that he is not properly educated.
Answer: He uses logos to present rational arguments and then ethos to demonstrate that he lives by his principles.
Explanation:
The statement that best describes the way that Thoreau structured "Resistance to Civil
Government" is that he uses logos to present rational arguments and then ethos to demonstrate that he lives by his principles.
The injustice of the government which the people should disobey and he also sets and example of pursuing what was right through his refusal to pay taxes as a way of protesting against slavery. This combines both logos and ethos as he first elaborated his argument and then proves it's morally right using ethos.
