Answer:
Atticus says, “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try not to win.”
Explanation:
The correct answer would be A. The first step in getting the gist would be to identify the keywords. Getting gist is the same as knowing the main idea of a certain passage. The very first to identify this should be to find keywords that you think is important in the text and speaks of the message of the passage.
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<em>The kind of plays Euripides wrote were mainly </em><u><em>tragedies</em></u><em>. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
Drama has various aspects. A branch of drama named Tragedy deals with the saddening or heart breaking event faced or caused by an individual. The term “tragedies” is applied as an extension to the literary works like a novel which expresses the sorrow of a particular event.
Euripides was best known for opening up a new approach to traditional myths. He is known to change elements of the stories or to portray the error-prone sides of his characters. His major works include <em>The Bacchae, Medea, Hippolytus and Alcestis.</em>
Corrected:
This paper provides a summary of evidence on changes in cycling and physical activity in five towns following the first phase of the Department for Transport cycling investment programme between October 2012 and February 2017. It draws on three separately published volumes of evidence<u>: </u>Demonstration Towns monitoring report, 2012-17<u>: </u>Public Opinion Results, 2009-17<u>; </u>and Cycling Demonstration Surveys of Physical Activity, 2005-17.
I gave an explanation of the usage of semicolons and colons in another question you had, so I won't repeat it again, but still let me know if you have any questions!
The figurative language would be “..that nipped him sharply and bit with especial venom”
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