"Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid" is an example of <em>D. personification.</em>
Personification is a literary device in which animals, objects or ideas are given human attributes. In this case, sorrow is given the ability to knock at someone's door, but as we know it is only a figure of speech because sorrow cannot knock at the door.
Answer: When Harriet was five years old, she was rented out as a nursemaid where she was ... Tubman found work as a housekeeper in Philadelphia.
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This extract if from 'The Leap' by Louise Erdrich.
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It is about a blind mother who is surviving about half of the blindfold trapeze act, the Flying Avalons. The daughter says how she was saved by her mother thrice.
First she was saved when a tent pole cracked and fell on the town square. The father and mother gave her life. the other incident was when their house caught fire, her mother saved her.
The girl trusted her mother and was saved.
The correct answer is A. In the Gettysburg Address, saving the Union is the focus. President Abraham Lincoln delivered two of the greatest speeches in American history during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address. The inaugural address was devoted altogether to saving the Union without war. Both parties had different thoughts, and the war came.
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Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy and was named after the city of her birth. She died on August 13, 1910, at the age of 90 after living a long, productive life in which her ideas and contributions helped to shape the way nursing is practiced in the western world.
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