Answer:
Even in the not-officially-segregated North, there was often a wide gulf between the color-blindness of the American dream and the racial discrimination in daily life, which, early in their lives, crushed the aspirations and dashed the hopes of promising young black Americans. In this story (published in 1941), celebrated poet, novelist, and playwright Langston Hughes (1902–67) describes such an incident in the life of a talented and proud American high school student, Nancy Lee Johnso.
Explanation:
D. Presentation
Word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions are all a matter of grammar. However, using proper spacing and font sizes helps the writer and the writing itself seem more presentable to the audience or reader, thus making the answer D. Presentation.
To answer this we need the excerpt.
Since I cannot answer here are some tips
-find where Gregor is mentioned and see what he has done/not done
-look at your answer choices get rid of the two that don’t make sense and pick from the remaining
- if it isn’t multiple choice think about how is actions reflect on him: his personality and base your ideas off that
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