The phrase "lily of a man" as it is used in line 3 of Gary Soto's poem most closely means an anxious weakling, as is said in option C and explained below.
To find the answer, we used our knowledge of context clues.
<h3>What are context clues?</h3>
Context clues are any words or phrases that help us figure out the meaning or connotation of other words or phrases in the same context. Here, we need to understand the meaning of "lily of a man."
The context clues used for that is "A coward I am not," the phrase that comes immediately before "lily of a man." Since both phrases complete each other, we can assume they have similar meanings.
Therefore, we can safely conclude the speaker is saying that he is not an anxious weakling, not a coward. The best answer in this case is option C.
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Answer:
D.
Explanation:
A conditional mood is a request or in condition of something happening in the future; it uses auxiliary verbs.
It is not A because it is a demand and a statement.
It is not B becaus it is a demand.
It is not C because C is in condition of something that has <u>already</u> happened in the past.
It is D because it is a request.
This suggests a possibilty, whether it is through a request (requests can be denied or accepted) or scenario in which things are suggested to alter the future, even if it can't be changed.
Answer:
by the stock of superlatives the author means the group of people who were superlative or of high post or standard in the audience.
And the sentence means that the person exhausted or astonished the minds of his audience that even the superlatives were surprised by his lecture and was....as said the first after Desmond Tutu in 2008 to get a standing ovation or the highest standard of applause to him.
