Answer:
1. I may not be able to jog today, as I am feeling a bit under the weather.
2. At the start of the lecture, the new professor tried to break the ice by telling a joke.
3. I will be on cloud nine when my articles get published.
Explanation:
When someone says they are feeling under the weather, it means they are not feeling well.
When someone says to break the ice, it means to get a conversation going or to relieve the tension in a social setting.
When someone says they are on cloud nine, it means they are super happy.
The correct answer is B. Since it's a small town, everyone knows everybody else.
Explanation:
In this specific story, the setting includes details such as "Country field" or "small town" because these details refer to the context and specific location of this story including the geographic and demographic features "The population barely reached 263 people". Moreover, this specific setting affects the story because it affects the characters. Indeed, this specific stetting implies in the town there are few people and they know and support each other. This is explicitly mentioned in "Everybody knew everybody". According to this, the correct answer is B.
Although no options are added to the question, but there are basically four features that are present in lyric poetry and which distinguishes it from other forms of poetry:
1. They are usually short length
2. They always have a musical quality
3. They express personal thoughts and feelings of the speaker
4. They are always from a first-person point of view
By outline do you mean summary?
<span> The question given above is incomplete, the options attached to the question are given below:
A. </span>The author acknowledges that civilians should
not suffer, but states that the civilians must retreat.
B. The author suggests that the administrators in
Washington are busy making polices while overlooking the need to end the war.
C. The author acknowledges that the violence should
stop, but admits that a retreat might have dire consequences.
D. The author suggests that the Vietnamese people
are counting on US support, though their political ideals are not democratic.
ANSWER
The correct option is C.
A paradox refers to a statement that is made up of conflicting ideas. In the passage given above, the author is expressing his view that the war should be stopped but at the same time, he is saying that there will be serious consequences if the war is stopped; this is a paradox.
