Answer: D. To suggest an alternative.
Explanation:
Conjunctions are the words that are used in linking other words, clauses or sentences together. Examples of conjunction include or, while, and, since, but, because, nor, yet, although, unless, etc.
"Or"used is used to to link alternatives. It is used for connecting choices or possibilities or choices. In this case, or is used in suggesting an alternative. Therefore, the correct option is D.
Answer:
The story's time period provides the reader with a reference point, for if someone reads a book about the early eighteen hundreds, they can assume that slavery has not yet been abolished and that people are outwardly racist. This helps provide a reference point, as if you didn't know the time period, you would be confused as why these events were happening.
Explanation:
<span>"Counting Small-Boned Bodies" is a short poem of ten lines and, as its title suggests, plays upon official body counts of dead Vietnamese soldiers. The poem's first line, "Let's count the bodies over again," is followed by three tercets, each of which begins with the same line: "If we could only make the bodies smaller." That condition granted, Bly postulates three successive images: a plain of skulls in the moonlight, the bodies "in front of us on a desk," and a body fit into a finger ring which would be, in the poem's last words, "a keepsake forever." One notes in this that Bly uses imagery not unlike that of the pre-Vietnam poems, especially in the image of the moonlit plain.</span>
Answer:
C. "..... I had to walk nearly a mile ... yet I made the trip gladly"
Explanation:
'Coming of age' exemplifies a genre that deals with the growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. Bildungsroman also illustrates the sub-genre of this genre. 'Farewell to Manzanar' depicts the life experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki. <em>The story of Wakatsuki too displays a coming of age story as it begins with her childhood and moves forward to her growing up as an adult and struggle with the conflicts of life. Thus, the above phrase displays a coming of age story as it talks about the trip(her growth).</em>
You should use a correlative conjunction here.
Both . . . and
Either . . . or
Neither . . . nor
Not only . . . but also
