The action described in the passage most likely occur "on a day sometime in the late nineteenth century or early twentieth century".
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The passage is about the description of a train to a girl. The narrator tells the girl how the train runs a thousand miles across Texas and it never stops except four times.
The girl was marveled at the sea-green figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil.
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First protagonist.
It is from the the main character and only their perspective. First person usually captures the character's emotions and insight the best.
The answer choice which best illustrates that the underlined sentence develops the central idea is; it shows that a muslim invention benefited european society.
<h3>Which best develops the central idea?</h3>
The passage in discuss reads thus;
<u>But the Crusades were more than battles; they were also an information exchange.</u> As a result of their contact with Muslims, the Europeans began to break out of their sealed-off world. They learned mathematics and, according to some scholars, how to build windmills. Windmills were a great power source that allowed Europeans to drain swamps and make use of lands that had previously gone to waste. With more land, they could grow more food. This knowledge that Muslims had helped Europe to get on its feet. And wars against the Muslims brought Europeans to sugar.
It therefore follows from the underlined sentence that there were negative and positive results from alliance.
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<em>Metaphor, personification.
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<em>The poem cherry tree is about the cherry tree which the poet wants to plant. He sow the seeds and seeds grow into a sapling and then in to a plant. It took eight years for the plant to produce cherry after so much struggle like extreme cold conditions, goat eating leaves of the tree, fungus of the plant etc.,
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<em>Metaphor is a figure of speech in which the poet compares two things but cannot be taken literally. Example:’ Ripened and jewelled in the sun’ he tells that the berry is like a jewel in the sunlight which shows us that he admires the fruit but not ‘it looks like a jewel’.
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<em>Personification means the author's way of behaviour the plant or any non living thing in comparison with a human being. Example: The flower danced in the cool breeze. In this poem it says about the cherry tree. ‘Its arms in a fresh fierce lust’.</em>
