Answer:
( ) sets off information that is helpful, but not always essential.
: sets apart information that is essential to the meaning of a sentence.
— introduces a list, a definition, an explanation, or a quote that follows an independent clause.
Explanation:
Dashes are used for lists. —
Parentheses or brackets are used when trying to add more to a sentence (just like this) in order to elaborate. ( )
Colon is used for lists or to add on to something. My stomach hurts: I felt a pain in my abdomen.
Tell me if I got it right, sorry if they’re wrong.
The tone of the passage is dejected and it is helped by the stark haunting imagery of the passage.
Explanation:
The passage carries a meaning of dejected failure on the part of the speaker who is talking of the ruin that has been brought on him and his pitiful condition is described.
The imagery is what helps the tone.
Words like ravenous, perched, feast help establish the tone.
The image of the fall of two mighty eagles who are then perched and then eating from the hands of dead soldiers as ravens and crows wait for their feast.
This creates a horror and instills pathetic emotions that makes one understand the pain of the speaker.
Answer:
D. Short sentences and confused thoughts speed the pace toward the barber’s important decision.
Explanation:
In the sort story "Lather And Nothing Else" by Hernando Tellez, the plot revolves around the internal conflict of a barber who wished to kill his customer, General Tortes. Turns out that the barber had been a revolutionary, and the general was the head of the military that is trying to remove all the revolutionaries.
In the given excerpt, the barber is in a dilemma whether to kill the general while he's shaving him, for the opportunity is perfect. But then he decides that he may be a revolutionary, but not an executioner like the general. His decision to not kill him was a result of extreme internal conflict between himself. But in the end, it serves him in a good way for the general had already known his true identity and ha just tested him by coming to his shop. The author uses short sentences in presenting the scene in the shop, and the confusion in him to create a sense of suspense in the barber.
In the "Bean Eaters', as the couple is eating, they are also C, remembering their past.
