Positive: Economical, Vintage, Thrifty
Neutral: Old
Negative: Cheap, Decrepit
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6. D. Personification. This is because the phrase gives the limbs of trees a description that makes it sound alive.
7. A. Simile. This is because similes are compared using like or as, and the sentence has the word like.
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The answers are: It does not allow listeners to interpret each character through his or her tone; and it does not allow listeners to review or reread what each character has said.
When hearing the characters voices out loud, and in the hypothetical case that it is a live audition and not a recording, one, as part of the audience, does not have, evidently, the possibility of reviewing or rereading what each character says. This may seem vane, but in reality, it can be very important when reading since sometimes the sense of what´s being read is so profound that, in order to capture in full, one needs to review a certain passage.
Also, hearing the characters has the disadvantage of making their voices concrete and specific according to whoever is speaking. This leaves out the possibility of filling the character´s voice with one´s own imagination, wit, and fantasy, which usually are very important characteristics of a fictional character (literature, in the end, is always a very subjective activity on the side of the reader).
The independent clause in the sentence is "we returned it." This is the answer because if you say the sentence alone it makes since and it does not need another sentence to support it. Furthermore, the dependent clause in that sentence is "Because the shirt had a tear,". This does not express a reasoning for the shirt having a tear. But, "we returned it", has a subject and a verb. "we" is the subject, and the action of returning is the verb. I hope this has been helpful. : )
So, I think that the most loaded word is "sharply" : it provides a judgement: that the split over the issue was very big ("sharp"). The other words could be used to just describe the situation (although the situation is loaded itself).
