Answer:
- He found, as he often told my sister, broken horse-shoes (a "bad sign"), met cross-eyed women, another "bad sign," was pursued apparently by the inimical number thirteen—and all these little straws depressed him horribly.
- One day on coming back home he found one of his hats lying on his bed, accidentally put there by one of the children, and according to my sister, who was present at the time, he was all but petrified by the sight of it. To him it was the death-sign.
Explanation:
The two sentences listed above characterize Paul as a superstitious person. A superstitious person is a person who strongly believes in irrational things (for example, a belief in magic). Common superstitions include:
- if you break a mirror, you will have bad luck for seven years
- if a black cat crosses your path, bad luck awaits you
- if you open an umbrella inside your house, you will have bad luck, etc.
Paul, in these sentences, is presented as someone who believes that broken-horse shoes, cross-eyed woman, number thirteen, or his hat on the bed announce that bad things will happen. All of these examples suggest that Paul is a superstitious person.
Answer:
"Ralph becomes upset that he and Simon are doing all of the work, realizing that everyone else is “bathing, or eating, or playing.”
Depends on how you wanna start it
"Piggy criticizes the others for letting the fire spread outside the fire-pit by asking, “How can [they] expect to be rescued if [they] don’t put first things first and act proper?” This leads to a confrontation on the mountain between Jack and Piggy which Ralph must diffuse."
Explanation:
Answer:
Two words using the root -gest- are gesture and digestion. The original meaning of the root as inherited from Lating was "carry" or "perform". In modern English, however, the word has a separate meaning of "a tale of adventures" or "a romance in verse" (according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary).
Explanation:
Here is a sentence with the word "gesture".
<u>Peter's gift was a very kind gesture.</u>
As for the connection of the word "gesture" with its root: the gift actually "carries" kindness or "performs" an act of kindness.
Answer:
The correct answer should be: "[...] only human language utilizes complex system of speech".
Explanation:
Although animals such as dolphins and great apes communicate, which is a form of language, only humans are capable of producing speech through the use of words and a complex set of phrases and sentences. Animals do not speak, even though they communicate differently, only people are able to use language in this way, only humans use a complex system of language data inside out their minds while using oral or written speech.
C because I did it and I got it right
