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3 years ago

Read the following passage from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" and answer the question.

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2 answers:

Black_prince [1.1K]3 years ago

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Answer:

The best answer is indeed the first option: Wake up and quit wasting time inside. Get outside and into the light!

Explanation:

In his poem "Song of the Open Road", Whitman talks of not wanting to be confined any longer. The speaker has decided to live out in the open, to travel and see the world. He even claims that healthy and beautiful people are formed by air and light, by spending their time outdoors. The speaker feels free and welcomed by the world, which is now his home.

In the excerpt we are studying here, the speaker is inviting someone, possibly the reader, to come with him. He's urging the reader to leave the confinement of his own house and embracing freedom outside. Thus, the best paraphrase for the passage is "Wake up and quit wasting time inside. Get outside and into the light!"

Darya [45]3 years ago

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The first sentence best paraphrases the passage because the text mentions escaping the dark confinement which symbolizes isolation and loneliness. The first sentence accurately paraphrases the passage's message to live life and not spend all of one's days inside a house.

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B. Put in the right prepositions in the blanks from the box

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Answer:

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2 years ago

What evidence from the text best supports the theme that the roles of women are defined by society

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What evidence from the text best supports the theme that the roles of women are defined by society?

"You have loved me as a wife ought to love her husband. Only you had not sufficient knowledge to judge of the means you used."

"But do you suppose you are any the less dear to me, because you don't understand how to act on your own responsibility?"

"I will advise you and direct you. I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes."

"You must not think anymore about the hard things I said in my first moment of consternation, when I thought everything was going to overwhelm me."

Answer:

"I will advise you and direct you. I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes."

Explanation:

The evidence from the text that best supports the theme that the roles of women are defined by society is "I will advise you and direct you. I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes.".

Traditionally, the role of women has been looked at as one that needs guidance from her husband and one who needs to perform the role of a wife dutifully, it is what society expects of her. So, the correct answer is option C.

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3 years ago

In titles which words are typically not capitalized small words articles first words single word titles

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The correct answer is articles. In a title articles will rarely be capitalised. Articles are the words which come before nouns, such as 'an' and 'the' which are not the most important words within the title and do therefore not warrant the capitalisation.

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2 years ago

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Answer and Explanation:

In "Flowers for Algernon," the main character is Charlie Gordon, a man who undergoes surgery to improve his intelligence. Before the procedure, Charlie's I.Q. was 68. At a certain point in the story, three different doctors try to explain to Charlie what I.Q. is, but they have different opinions on the matter.

Dr. Nemur says the I.Q. of a person shows how smart that person is. Dr. Strauss, on the other hand, claims that Dr. Nemur is wrong, and that an I.Q. shows how smart a person can get. That it is like the numbers written on a measuring cup - we still need to fill the cup with something. Confused, Charlie talks to Dr. Burt, who says the other two doctors could be wrong. According to Burt, I.Q. can measure several different things, including things a person has already learned, but it is not a good measure for intelligence.

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3 years ago

Which lines are written in iambic pentameter? Check all that apply.

skelet666 [1.2K]

Answer:

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

Explanation:

Iambic pentameter is a form of poetical writing style where there are ten syllables/ iambs / meters in a line. These words in each line will also be an alternation between an unstressed and a stressed syllable.

Among the lines given in the question, the last two lines are written in an iambic pentameter form. The lines are from William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18",

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

The stressed words are underlined, thus the evident alternating unstressed and stressed meter form. Thus, these two lines are written in an iambic pentameter form.

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