Answer:
I'm pretty sure the punctuation error is in the third sentence;
<em>'This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist; Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly.'</em>
Just after the word 'protagonist', the author uses a semi-colon (;). A semi-colon is used to link two separate clauses that have similar ideas together. It turns two clauses into one.
In this situation, the semi-colon is not doing that, because that would imply that if we were to separate the "two clauses", it would look like this:
<em>"This struggle plays out chiefly through the protagonist. Charlie, who anchors the film brilliantly." </em>
This wouldn't make sense. Instead of a semi-colon, the author should've used a comma!
Explanation:
Students should demonstrate an understanding that Oedipus feels that it is his unique responsibility as king to heal the suffering of all of his people, just like a father would for his children. Oedipus feels that he must carry the burden of the suffering of all of the people of Thebes.
Answer:
The sentence that is an example of a paradox is the following one: She tried to quiet the silence (D).
Explanation:
Paradox means "contrary to expectations or existing belief". It is a statement which appears to be silly or self-contradictory. In this case, the sentence suggests that there already is silence in the room since she is trying to quiet it. Yet silence is already quiet, so what does she need to quiet it? If silence is not quiet, then there is noise. Still, the sentence states that there is silence in the room. What this paradox seems to suggest is that the room is not silent enough.
Answer:
The author in the "Uprising" introduced the fancy silver buckle because the it was "...the kind of thing a girl would have been proud of..."
Explanation:
Bella is a teeange girl who left her city Italy and moved to America to earn money so that she can bring her family to America. When everyone was escaping from the fire, Bella sees a "fancy silver Buckle" on a girls waist. A "fancy silver Buckle" according to the author in the novel is "...the kind of thing a girl would have been proud of..." As a teenage girl, Bella also had desires to dress beautifully but because of her family conditions she couldn't. The author introduced "fancy silver buckle" to create the emotion pity in readers as Bella would never be able to have her dreams come true.
<em>"...the kind of thing she would have gone around
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<em>showing off, making sure her skirt flounced up to display it as
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<em>much as possible..."</em>
Answer: When the author mentions the "huge city" with "stores of heaped-up wealth", he means that in urban agglomerations where the rush of city life is so heavy and the persuit of weath seems to be the order of the day, the perception of time is almost lost in chaos. The clear image of this is Jurgis visiting the doctor and realising he had become an old man almost without realising it. Now he has no work and the normal aches and pains that come with age. At this point, he feels he was "used" by others when they had the chance to take advantage of him but now that he can't put up with the crazy speed of life, he's just discarded, thrown away; and that gives him a bitter taste in his mouth.