Answer:
A. Forceful
Explanation:
The author provides an inference context clue to help determine the meaning of the word heavy. The phrase “erupting like great beasts” helps the reader infer that the “heavy electronic beats” coming from basements are quite forceful.
Johnson uses sarcasm in this poem as he expresses the opposite of what he means. When he says "pile on the Black Man's Burden", and gives examples of how people can make black men more miserable than they already are ("his wail with laughter drown"), he is using sarcasm. He clearly does not want people to pile on this burden and make black men's lives harder, but he is saying that people should do it to show them how ridiculous it sounds and to point out that people are already doing that.
With saying tender juicy, people would be more intrigued and interested in buying it and trying it unlike if you say dry and stale
Answer:
b) It has united them and given them an identity as a people.
Explanation:
Hurston seeks to underline the differences between American English and black English by comparing them in the story.
