The line demonstrating the use of an understatement is the following:
<em><u>BOB (still looking out—looks up): Still all right up above, though. </u></em>
Having read the previous lines, the reader gets the sense that the situation is critical, the water is rising and it has already flooded the whole lower part of the hotel. However, Bob wants to diminish the emergency of the situation by stating that the upper part still looks alright meaning that the extent of the damage is not as great as Ed says.
Answer:
It confirms that the speaker values her mother's courage above all else
Explanation:
According to the poem The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the third stanza of "The Courage That My Mother Had" contributed to the meaning of the poem by confirming that the speaker values her mother's courage above all else.
Answer:
1) Douglass' mistress was strangely kind to him when they first met but after sometime, she changed and treated Douglass with cruelty.
2) Douglass continued learning how to read on his own by carrying a book with him anytime he ran errands. He became friends with some white boys whom he converted to teachers.
3) Douglass, learning that educating a slave would set him on a path to freedom gave him hope
4) The Irishmen told Douglass to run away to the north, find friends there and become free.
5) Douglass learned how to write by watching carpenters write on timber while he worked at a ship yard. He copied the letters and thereafter sought the help of his white friends to learn properly.
Explanation:
This an autobiography of Fredrick Douglass an American social reformer who rose from being a slave to becoming a national leader and an activist.
In this book " The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglass", he narrates his journey from being a slave to an internationally renowned activist.
The answer is b because it polar bears will be in a non fiction story and periodical is a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals.
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