Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In the 1400s, Spain and Portugal were competing to explore down the coast of Africa and find a sea route to Asia. That way, they could have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen. Spanish and Portuguese sailors searching for that sea route conquered the Canary Islands and the Azores. Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. One sailor came to know these islands particularly well because he traded in "white gold"—sugar. And then, as he set off on his second voyage across the sea to what he thought was Asia, he carried sugar cane plants from Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, with him on his ship. His name was Christopher Columbus.
How do the details in the passage most support the central idea?
Answer:
The details describe how Spanish and Portuguese explorations helped expand the sugar trade.
Explanation:
The passage explained how the sugar trade expanded. Using the historical evidence of Spanish and Portuguese exploration to depicts how the sugar trade expanded from the Muslim world to the canary islands nearby Africa through the Europeans and later to America.
Hence, the details in the passage support the central idea by describing how the Spanish and Portuguese explorations helped expand the sugar trade.
This can be the answer:
1. The wrath of God is compared to dammed waters
2. A bent bow,
3. Sinners are compared to spiders
It can also be the answer:
(1) Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
(2) As he that walks in slippery places is every moment liable to fall, he cannot foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once without warning
(3) For it is said, that when that due time or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide
A sooner, filled, and, released
Macbeth says these lines after he hears the witches' prophecies. He's basically trying to figure out what to do with that information, and in particular he's trying to figure out if it's good or evil. He's all like, "If witches are evil, then why are they telling me such good news?" (They told him he'll be king one day.)
The best answer therefore seems to be D. These are witches, who are presumed to be evil, but they've given him good news and one of their prophecies has already been proven true ("commencing with a truth").
B is also a good answer, but it's less directly supported by these lines, since Macbeth isn't directly addressing the danger of the witches' darkness.
Authors use tension so that it creates for excitement and is more interesting for the reader/audience. By telling the story backwards or by telling the story in bits and pieces to finally join all the pieces and show you a masterpiece( the whole picture). By heightening the emotions of the characters and the situations. An example of dramatic irony is when the author uses Oedipus not knowing he was the killer and making a promise that he shall kill the person who killed his <span>father. </span>
