Silent Spring is considered the book that started the global grassroots environmental movement. Released in 1962, it focuses on the negative effects of chemical pesticides that were, at the time, a large part of US agriculture.
Correct options are A, D, F and G.
The words and phrases from the excerpt that best support the author's purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the environment include, these disasters
, grim specter
, tragedy and stark reality.
These words are the ones that best support the author's purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the environment. The author wants us to be aware of the critical situation we are at in terms of the natural world. He tells us that natural disasters have already occurred in many places in the world, and that these grim prospects might one day become our everyday reality.
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Answer: The dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
Explanation: This is a form of personification, because the sentence states that the tropical forest is pressing a thick warm blackness on the yacht. Personification is giving human like qualities to inanimate objects.
Answer:
The image created in my mind was that of a ship on the sea, completely away from dry land, where you can only see a blue immensity and nothing else.
Explanation:
The text shown in the annex, emits a series of adjectives, which allows us to create a mental image, visualizing the same as the narrator. This narrator is on a ship, which has lost contact with its base on land and is in the middle of the ocean. The narrator states that he can only see the waves of the sea and the fish. With this we can create a mental image of a blue immensity, which represents the sea, with a tiny ship in the center.
Answer:
Pretty sure number one is <em><u>b</u></em>. (not simile, not personification because he's a person,)
Number 2 is definitely <u><em>simile </em></u>because it says "like" (similes contain like and as always)
<em><u>B</u></em>
<em><u>A</u></em>
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