The excerpt :
Eventually, I visited Guyana to find out the fate of our house. As our car passed old sugar estates, and I saw the palm trees bending against the wide sky, the lush cane growing in thick, shiny rows, the villages, which were really parcels of land surrounding the important estates, I realized that sugar had been the entire reason for this country's existence. Every now and then an old boiling house—where the cane is processed into crystals, molasses, and rum—would show itself on the flat landscape, cropping up like a hulking ghost
Answer:
They show that the author wants to inform readers by describing the old sugar estates.
Explanation:
From the excerpt Given, we could infer and conclude that the authors purpose as revealed by the details of the excerpt is to inform readers about the description of the old sugar estate. Even though the excerpt began with the author saying he wants to discover the fate their house, the main excerpt only covers details and description of the old sugar estate by giving an insight on how much sugar estate has grown and it being a main feature of the area.
Answer:
O, that I were a man for his sake! Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. He is now as vallient as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving
What is the message in these lines?
Explanation:
The lines quoted in question statement have been taken from Much Ado About Nothing written by famous writer Shakespeare.
The theme that can be deduced from the above lines is that at times people fail to honor the social integrity. There are few people who do the right thing to save their integrity, most find excuses that they couldn't do the right things becuase of some social or other barriers and are happy to live with that excuse like Beatrice in above paragraph, we accept dying believing there wasn’t really anything we could have done
Cut tomatoes because there cut if no light they will rot
The answer is personification
Why?:
Personification- when a thing or an animal acts like humans
In this case landscape "listens", they don' t listen and then Shadows "holds" their breath, Shadows can't HOLD THEIR BREATH!!
I hope this helps!
Diction and figurative language can impact an author's tone and characterization because they can make the story seem more real if everything is working well together, or they can keep the reader from connecting to the work if the choice of words and use of language clashes with the tone the author is trying to convey.
