Answer:
to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
Explanation:
According to the passage from "The Lottery", the narrator describes school being over for the summer and how uneasy the children were feeling about their liberty.
He describes Bobby Martins and some other boys picking up the smoothest and roundest stones and gathering them in a pile and guarding them.
Therefore, the most likely purpose of depicting how the boys are collecting the stones is that to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
Sentences 1, 2, and 4 contain characterization.
Characterization is a literary device that is used to highlight and explain details about a character in a story. This can includes things like the character's behavior, thought-process, opinions and ideas, conversations with other characters, and how others in the story react to the character's personality. There are two different types of characterization.
1. Direct or Explicit Characterization
This approach uses another character, the narrator, or the character themself to tell the reader about the character.
2. Indirect or Implicit Characterization
In this approach, the reader has to determine the characteristics of the character themselves
<em>Of the five statements, three contain characterization:</em>
- <em>“I don’t think your joke is funny,” she huffed, </em><em>glowering</em><em> at her friend.
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- <em>The tardy bell rang, but he </em><em>sauntered</em><em> to class </em><em>unconcerned</em><em>.</em>
- <em>She waited </em><em>patiently</em><em> as she </em><em>carefully</em><em> adjusted the telescope.
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The bolded words help us explain the character's behavior, which is why they are considered to contain characterization.
The other two sentences are not considered to use characterization because they describe places or things and not a character.
- <u>The house</u> loomed ominously on the hill; no occupants were visible.
- <u>The town’s laws</u> required that all teenagers be home by 11 p.m.
Answer:
Option B.
Explanation:
In the underlined section marked number (16) in the passage, there is a mistake in the way the sentence has been written. In order to correct the sentence so that it makes sense and correlates to the rest of the passage t should be written as follows: "His subsequent career would indicate that the lesson was well learned." In this corrected version introduces the pronoun his to clarify who the subject of the sentence is, and it also reorganizes the location of the different clauses of the sentence, so that it is cohesive and understandable for the reader.
