Answer and Explanation:
<u>Meeting at ten in the morning meant the villagers would have enough time to be done with the lottery and be home by noon for lunch. While other bigger towns had to begin the lottery one day earlier, this village only had 300 inhabitants, which made it all faster for them.</u>
"The Lottery" is a short story by author Shirley Jackson in which the power of ritual and tradition is discussed as theme. The inhabitants of a village take part in a lottery every single year, on the 27th of June. The person who name is ultimately drawn in the lottery has to be killed by the others.
Answer:
Natasha had <u>been waiting</u> for half an hour before her friend arrived.
Explanation:
The tense we are looking for here is the past perfect continuous. It shows that an action that started in the past continued up until another moment or action in the past. In this particular sentence, we have two actions: Natasha waiting, followed by her friend arriving. As both actions took place in the past, one before the other, we have to use the combination of the past perfect (in this case continuous) and past (simple) tense.
Construction of the past perfect continuous tense: had been + the verb's present participle (root + -ing).
Answer:
The literary element that enhances the setting in the excerpt is option A. simile.
Explanation:
Simile is a figure of speech that compares two things of different kinds. It is used to make a more vivid description and give the reader a clearer picture of what the writer wants to transmit. An example in this excerpt: "the foam was like tumbling snow."
