Answer:
a. Explorers during this period went to the New World in search of scarce resources.
Explanation:
Thomas Moore's "Utopia" is a fictional and a socio- political satire on the fictional picture of an imaginary island where there is a perfect governmental authority. As the name suggests, "Utopia" means a fictional world where the government, the religious aspects as well as the social community is perfect and everything is as it should be.
The given excerpt is from the section titled "Of The Travelling of The Utopians" where Moore talks of how men is by nature greedy for gold and silver but it is the lesser metals like iron that are more important for living and survival, "<em>for men can no more live without iron than without fire or water</em>". This excerpt can be best understood with the historical fact that explorers in the past went to the New World looking for scare resources such as gold and silver, which are considered more valuable than other metals.
Answer:
True. Homer uses irony in Menelaus's speaking with Helen about her history.
Explanation:
In Book 2 of "The Odyssey", Telemachus had arrived at the kingdom of Sparta and was staying with Menelaus. There, during dinner, they converse on the bravery of Odysseus and Menelaus and Helen began telling of stories about their knowledge of him. Helen expresses her praise for Odysseus and said that while she was in Troy as the wife of Paris, she had seen through the disguise of Odysseus but she did not report him to the Trojans as she misses her home and husband. This was responded by Menelaus as being "quite a tale". In this discourse between husband and wife, Homer uses irony and sarcasm.
The answer is quarrel
have a "competition" doesnt make sense
have a "remedy" also doesnt make sense
have a "dialouge" is also bad
have a "quarrel" makes sense and fits the context.
Answer:
Run-on sentences can sometimes be fixed by adding a word and sometimes by adding punctuation.
Explanation:
Example:
I thought I heard an intruder I reached for my baseball bat.
Add a word: Because I thought I heard an intruder, I reached for my baseball bat.
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I was hungry so I drove to McDonald's.
Add punctuation: I was hungry, so I drove to McDonald's.
