This excerpt comes from the play “<em><u>The Little Foxes”</u></em> written by <u>Lillian Hellman.</u> The cunning Regina and her greedy brothers Ben and Oscar are scheming to extract money from her husband Horace’s business.
Question: Which best describes why Regina tells the group “I explained to Ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”?
Answer: C. to convince Ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said
Answer:
Patriotism through consumerism
Explanation:
The person speaking explains that they feel good buying American-made goods. They are therefor showing patriotism through consumerism.
The first one is c.
the second one is c.
3rd is b.
4th is c.
5th is
<span>"Take a look at my new hamster!" said Abby.
"Why is this door open?" her friend asked.
Abby ran to the cage, "He escaped!" she screamed.
</span>6th is d.
7th is c.
Answer:
The correct answers are:
marked - considerable
unseared - pure, uncorrupted
Explanation:
The most interesting feature of my history here was my learning to read and write, under somewhat marked (considerable) disadvantages.
Words like these, I observed, always troubled them; and I had no small satisfaction in wringing from the boys, occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that springs from nature, unseared (pure, uncorrupted) and unperverted.
In his stories, Frederick Douglas tries to describe the cruelty of slavery and all the problems that the black people could face because of his/her skin color. In order to achieve that, he uses a strong and authentic vocabulary where some words can be replaced with other words that most closely match the denotation of the words.
In our excerpts, the word <em>marked</em> can be replaced with <em>considerable</em>, while the word <em>unseared</em> can be replaced with <em>pure</em> or <em>uncorrupted</em>.