Answer:
This is an excerpt from "Brave New World" that focuses on the feeling of inferiority and not belonging.
Explanation:
The excerpt shows a character who felt extremely inferior within the environment in which he lived, because he was physically different from the others. This inferiority was strengthened by the moments of mockery to which he was subjected that caused him so deep trauma that he prevented associate with people like him, as it makes him envy a life he will never have, leaving his high esteem even more scrapped and oppressed.
The sentence that contains a verbal phrase acting as a modifier is: Giving a presentation in front of my class, I suddenly developed sever stage fright.
Modifiers are optional elements in a phrase structure that even when removed, it does not affect the whole grammar of the sentence.
Tense allows for the sequencing of two or more noncontinuous events that occur in the same time period is perfect tense.
The perfect tense is a verb which indicates the actions which occurred earlier in the time and the resultant action is focused.
For example, the children have completed the homework.
The above sentence gives the information about the past action of 'doing homework' which is now completed, referring to the result of the action occurred earlier.
Answer:
C. is the dystopian quality of this passage: Power is based on the ability to obtain a necessity of life.
Explanation:
Dystopian fiction is social commentary in the form of a story that exaggerates one aspect of today's society.
People who have the most access to essentials will always have power over those who do not. This is the exaggerated aspect. It shows a piece of our everyday lives under a microscope, so we can say "hey, this doesn't seem right."