I'll tell you. M' father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most unmerciful. It were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. - You're a-listening and understanding, Pip?"
In this excerpt, the action of "hammering"
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The statements that best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt is the nature of the bruise is unclear.
<h3>What is an excerpt?</h3>
An excerpt refer to words, phrase that is extracted from a literary work which has meaning.
Therefore, The statements that best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt is the nature of the bruise is unclear.
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The story “<em><u>Broken Chain</u></em>” is written by <u>Gary Soto </u>and it deals with the teenager struggles that arise in Alfonso’s life. He doesn’t like the way he looks but he wants so badly to impress a girl named Sandra.
Question: A student is writing a paragraph about "Broken Chain" that makes the point that Alfonso’s conflict in the story is mainly an internal one. What would be the best illustration of this point?
Answer: A. He hates the way he looks and spends hours “trying to herd his teeth into place with his thumb.”
The answer is B. because the job was the easiest
