Answer:
The allusion lends patriotic pride to the excerpt.
Explanation:
Vachel Lindsay’s poem "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed" is a free-verse poem about John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman. The poem is a celebration of the pioneering career of the man who introduced apple trees to large parts of the American continent.
In the given lines taken from the beginning part of the poem, the speaker talks of the <em>"glory of the nations"</em>, which suggests a patriotic feeling in him. He went on to describe the images of the places far and wide, projecting a positive aspect of it. These given lines allude to the sentimental feeling of one's pride for his nation, his land, his country. And it is just this exact feeling that the speaker wants to express.
Answer: C
Explanation:
She tells him that he must avenge his father and flatters him
Answer:
X<4 worked for me on that question
Explanation:
The passage is here:
<span>Spare the rod and spoil the child."—Ichabod Crane’s scholars certainly were not spoiled.
I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch. All this he called "doing his duty by their parents;" and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that "he would remember it, and thank him for it the longest day he had to live."
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The correct answer is "<span>Ichabod was a fair teacher who was misunderstood by his students."</span>
