The correct answer would be option b. of a lifetime of strengthening of the bigram detectors for common english letter pairs.
When learning native or a second language, the rules of structures of words are formed like chunks or bigram detectors that indicate some common English letter pairs patterns. When it is stated that Betty misread the string of letters in a way that follows the rules of common English, it is because of the chunks already formed in her brain that tries to fit the letters together in a structure that would make some sense.
Question 4: simile
The simile in the excerpt is "His beard was as white as snow." A simile is a comparison between two things using like or as. In this simile the color of his beard is compared to the snow. As to the other options, personification is giving a nonhuman thing human-like traits. Everything in the excerpt is human. Allusion is a reference to another literary work. There is no reference. Metaphor is a comparison between two things without using like or as. This uses as so it is a simile and not a metaphor.
Question 5: He plans to pretend that he has gone mad.
When Hamlet talks about "an antic disposition", he means that he is going to change his mood to one of madness. It is important to remember that mad actually means insane or crazy, not angry.
Question 6: Hamlet is saying that his madness changes like the weather, and that he is only mad some of the time.
In this piece of dialogue Hamlet is speaking of his madness like it's the wind. The wind changes directions just like his madness can change. He is trying to tell his friends that his madness is not constant but instead changes.
1. die
2. harm
3. improves
4. had
5. stopped
6. would go
7. had had
8. would have loved
9. unless
10. saw
Nick's recent arrival at west egg and his intention to stay for only a short time underscore the fact that :
He is an outsider in this community.
He does not have enough wealth to be able to live in a modest place,
