Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
Answer:
Passionate love between young pair
Each person takes one's own life because of unfortunate misunderstanding
Explanation:
There are too many events in the plot of "Pyramus and Thisbe" from which William Shakespeare draws the story of "Romeo and Juliet". Some more similarities in both the stories are;
Kept apart by their family who hate each other
Both pairs decide to elope
Both pairs decide to run away together
Female protagonists are thought to be dead, so male protagonists take their own lives.
Female protagonists use the same blades (used by their beloved) to kill themselves.
Answer:
The author's purpose is to inform how a pencil and eraser are made.
Explanation:
As you can see in the text above, the author is informing readers about the elements that make up a pencil and an eraser, since the author describes these elements. In this case, we can consider that this is an informative text, where the intention of the author is only to inform and not to present opinions or arguments.
Answer:
Based on the passage, the reader can infer that some Haida families lived in homes that
were large.
were small.
had windows.
had fireplaces.
Explanation:
