Answer:
A. Mira is more mature than the other kids in the group.
B Mira is acting like a leader for the group of children.
Explanation:
"The motherly Mira intervened" The author uses the word motherly to describe Mira, meaning that she must be older than the kids, the kids must look up to her. She is acting like a leader by telling the kids to form a circle.
Answer:
The author describes a hit at a baseball game and the data collected from it.
Explanation:
The physics of baseball means the behavior of a hit in terms of velocity , gravity, projection and other physics related attributes during game play. To introduce the physics assessment cited with the baseball game, The author made reference to the game between the Kansas City royals and the Detroit Tigers. He used this to explain some of the physics related phenomeon and the required data including speed of ball, the angle of travel and so on. Then, he explained some natural laws such as the Newton's law, energy and momentum.
I have found the excerpt and the choices from another source. I will paste them below:
<span>They laughed at his wild excess of speech, of feeling, and of gesture. They were silent before the maniac fury of his sprees, which occurred almost punctually every two months, and lasted two or three days. They picked him foul and witless from the cobbles, and brought him home . . . . And always they handled him with tender care, feeling something strange and proud and glorious lost in [him]. . . . He was a stranger to them: no one—not even Eliza—ever called him by his first name. He was—and remained thereafter—"Mister" Gant. . . .
</span>A. They spread gossip about his unusual conduct.
B. They consider him a talented man and good friend.
C. They think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him.
D. They worry about his excessive behaviors.
The excerpt would tell us that Oliver's neighbors (C) think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him.
We know that the neighbors think Oliver is peculiar or strange through the first half of the excerpt and from the line "he was a stranger to them". Despite this strangeness though, we can also infer that the neighbors revere or deeply respect him because they still "handled him with tender care".
Answer:
I'm assuming there was a passage to this...
anyways, Dickinson was adept at writing imagery
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