<span>the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
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Answer:
The correct answer is <u>C:</u> Growing up is complicated and challenging, but is ultimately worth it for what can be accomplished.
Explanation:
In his text called "If", Rudyard Kipling tries to support younger generations in their growing up, by explaining different challenges and obstacles they will face during that process. However, he encourages young people to pursue their desires, but without forgetting how to be honest and objective.
Answer: B. He is, for the first time, aware of the world as a bleak and savage place.
Explanation:
Pip heard a terrible voice only after he began to cry, so D is not a correct choice. His parents and brothers had died a long time before the event described in the excerpt (so B would be wrong). Pip was not lost on the marshes (so C would be wrong). The answer would be A.
Here is support in the text:
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip."
Explanation:
I would go with answer choice A) He argued his point persuasively.