I believe the correct answer is: “Dipping his fingers languidly into the cool pond, he delicately plucked out an oval-shaped purple leaf…”
The setting of the narrative represents the place where narrative is being unfolded – its surroundings, position. This quotation is the best contribution to the setting as it describes the place where the story begins or where story happens (at the edge of the wide, sloping lawn, the tall, green fronds of bamboo waved, as mild as grazing sheep, and the politely clicking melody of wooden wind chimes wafted from the weathered pine balcony of his twelve-bedroom cottage).
Therefore, the excerpt from the text best establishes the setting of this passage is:
"Dipping his fingers languidly into the cool pond, he delicately plucked out an oval-shaped purple leaf with fine-toothed edges, then let it drop so he could capture a newer one, a larger, brilliantly red leaf whose crinkled surface curled like the palm of a hand. Behind him, at the edge of the wide, sloping lawn, the tall, green fronds of bamboo waved, as mild as grazing sheep, and the politely clicking melody of wooden wind chimes wafted from the weathered pine balcony of his twelve-bedroom cottage."
Answer:
Two related examples of imagery in Mark Twain's "Cub Pilot on the Mississippi" are his initial vivid description of Captain Brown and later description of their fight. Another example is his explanation of his criticism of Brown’s speech.
I am trying to think of a third one.
C looks to be right, normally when ¨and¨ theres no comma, but when there are two sentences theres normally a comma. plus when saying a title theres normally a :
Answer:
Contrast
Explanation:
The sentence you were given is the following:
The duck was delighted with his new toy and immediately began to experiment with it, but within moments his mood changes from joyful to despondent.
The options you were given are:
- Contrast
- Similarity
- Appositive
- Example
When you're unsure about what a certain word means, you can try to figure out its meaning based on the context - words, phrases, and sentences that surround it.
The context clue that can help us understand the meaning of the word <em>despondent</em> is contrast. The first clause describes how delightful the duck is, and the second is introduced with the conjunction <em>but</em>. <em>But </em>is a contrast conjunction - it is used to connect ideas that oppose each other. The duck was happy, but its mood suddenly changed. We can assume that the word <em>despondent </em>means the opposite of happy or something close to that.
Another tool that can help us find out what a word means is a dictionary - an alphabetically arranged listing of words that contains different information about them, such as their definitions, examples, origin, pronunciation, etc. If we look up the word <em>despondent </em>in a dictionary (e.g. Merriam-Webster Dictionary), we can confirm what it means exactly: <em>feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.</em>
The title that Macbeth was given was called the "Thane of Cawdor"
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