The correct answer is <u>B) unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED. It emphasizes the dreariness of life.</u>
This rhyme scheme is <em>aabba</em> which means that the word "dreary" from the beginning of the stanza <u>rhymes back with itself</u> in the end of the stanza which emphasizes the cyclical, dreary nature of life though the means of using this meter. In other words, the dreariness cannot be escaped.
Answer:
The details from the text that best supports the answer to Part A.
"<em>When I was done, I read over my words, and my eyes filled. I finally sounded like myself in English!"</em>
<em>"What we ended up doing that night was putting together a speech at the last moment. Two brief pages of stale compliments and the polite commonplaces on teachers, wrought by necessity without much invention by mother for daughter late into the night in the basement on the pad of paper and with the same pencil she had once used for her own inventions, for I was too upset to compose the speech myself</em>."
NOTE: I am answering this question to the best of my knowledge since adequate information were not given for the question.
Explanation:
Part A question:
Which TWO statements describe the main themes of the story?
Part A answers:
Creativity and creation can bring great joy.
If you’re going to be an inventor or creator, it’s important to not be afraid to take risks.
Looking at the answers from Part A, you will discover that the details I stated in my answer support the themes as stated in the Part A answers.
In the story, the narrator revealed that she started writing recklessly and when she done, her eyes were filled. That should be tears of joy and satisfaction. She was proud of herself.
If one will be an inventor or creator, such one must be ready and not afraid to take risks. We discover that the narrator, despite the father's attitude towards her, she took the risk of still writing with the help of her mother.
Perry tells Mrs. Josie Meier that he does not want to eat, because he is afraid that if he does eat, he will get killed by an angry mob. He has this fear because he saw a movie once that had a scene where a character suffered this unfortunate fate.
Among lots of other things, Franklin was a printer. That means he owned a printing press and publish newspapers and other things. He also printed stuff for other people. Franklin also held the job of postmaster. This was a paying job. He saw all sorts of things passing through British North America. He also had a ready system for sending out his various publications including his "Poor Richard's Almanack" which was extremely popular. He was also a well-known scientist. He shared his scientific work with other British scientists and became somewhat of an international celebrity in Europe. Take these ideas and others you may have and provide a bit more ( or a lot) details and you should be able to hit your word quota easily.
Franklin's use of humor and his attempts to poke fun at himself to not seem arrogant. Moreover, Franklin's style is terse and witty; he usually makes his points using as few words as possible. Franklin's style is predominantly didactic as the Autobiography is intended to be read partly as a self- help manual. Franklin contributed to the development of journalism as a type of writing that presents the facts in the order of most important to least important, using as few words as are necessary.
