Reread the following excerpt from "The New Colossus": "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe fr

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Reread the following excerpt from "The New Colossus": "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe fr

ee." Which words from the excerpt most clearly provide the context to support the reader's inference of the meaning of "huddled"? A. Give/your B. Masses/free C. Breathe/me D. Tired/yearning

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Firlakuza [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-13T20:29:03+03:00

This expression "....Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." implies that the people had got closely together - huddled- because they were tired and were yearning for freedom. Therefore, option D. Tired / yearning is the correct one. A. Give / your will not be helpful to infer the context since 'your' by itself conveys no meaning. B) Masses / free refer to the fact that the masses desired to be free , but they do not refer to the reason why the masses had got to be closely together. C) Breathe / me are not giving any hints; to breathe refers to the desire of the masses to be free and 'me' is a pronoum which by itself means nothing in this context.