I'm guessing stanzas. Stanzas are groups of lines that form the basic poem to keep it organized.
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B, C, and D are all correct answers.
Both B C and D are action verbs, since they are all involved as a sort of action.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing
an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so
leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind courteous, restrained and magnanimous.
In Mao’s view the revolutionary instincts of the peasantry derive from their poverty. Hence it is
the poorest peasants, those with the least to lose, who are naturally the most revolutionary.
In these stirring passages, Mao puts forth a view of revolution quite different from that of Marx
and Lenin; whereas for Marx the urban proletariat served as the revolutionary vanguard and for
Lenin the Communist Party fulfilled that purpose, Mao is here assigning the role of revolutionary
vanguard to the poor peasants who, as he described them “are not afraid of losing anything.”
Although Mao’s Marxian celebration of class struggle put him at odds with a Confucian
preference for social harmony, he nevertheless shared with Mencius a stress on the peasantry as
the decisive political force – and a belief that peasant poverty was the root cause of revolution
(the modern Chinese term for which, geming, carries the meaning of “to change the mandate”).
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After the establishment of a Communist regime in China, when Mao’s thoughts turned from
revolution to developmental issues, he continued to emphasize the pivotal and dynamic role of
the peasantry.
The correct answer is:
<span>A. Mao provides synonyms to help the reader understand his meaning.</span>
Answer:
In the excerpt from Richard Wright's autobiography "Black boy" title "the rights to the streets of Memphis" the 2 similes that describe the setting in some way are found in the following sentences:
1. "My mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea".
2. "Sometimes, when she was in despair, she would call us to her and talk us for hours, telling us that we now had no father, that our lives would be different from those of other children, that we must learn as soon as possible to take care of ourselves, to dress ourselves, to prepare our own food; that we must take upon ourselves the responsibility of the flat while she worked"
Explanation:
From the excerpt, there are similes in the above sentences that describe the setting of the story. It reveals that the family seem to be a single-parent family where the mother is left to cater for the children. The father has been away for sometime leaving the mother alone with the children. The mother gets a work as a cook in order to cater for the children.
This particular excerpt reveals the attitude of the mother in making her son fearless and to possess the ability to defend himself.
B.) why my god they used to go there by the hundreds, because of the sheer fact almost no one shows up to the funeral of the man that everyone seemed to love an would show up to his parties unconditionally.
