The correct answer is C, regionalism
Regionalism is writing in such a way as to convey the "local color" of a place. In this excerpt, the characteristics of the speaker's hometown are conveyed by the way he speaks, or his dialect.
When your dealing with questions like this usually there's more then one answer. In this case there is none. When they throw questions like the one above there testing you to see if you went through the passage and understood why people were feeling a certain way.
When you try to figure that out its usually best to re-read the passage and look for detail words. For example: anger, distrustful. In this case those words Leave you with C. I hope that helps you out!
Answer:
To sustain that slaves were not lazy and idle. That they were also intelligent and had desires.
Explanation:
Maria W. Stewart used the thirteen colonies' fight for independence from Great Britain as support to explain that slaves were also intelligent, that they had a drive, that they had ambitions, dreams, and that they were not lazy people crying for freedom. That the knew how to work because they had passed their lives under strong regimes and guidelines to be satisfied. She also recalled how the patriots found inspiration to fight a war with odds against and managed to win.
Answer:
C. is the dystopian quality of this passage: Power is based on the ability to obtain a necessity of life.
Explanation:
Dystopian fiction is social commentary in the form of a story that exaggerates one aspect of today's society.
People who have the most access to essentials will always have power over those who do not. This is the exaggerated aspect. It shows a piece of our everyday lives under a microscope, so we can say "hey, this doesn't seem right."
The speaker is using allusion it this line.
Allusion is a figure of speech in which something outside of the source text is being referred to. So here, Bacchus, Satan, and the Hangman aren't actually characters in this literary piece of work, but the author is making a reference to them nevertheless.
