Answer:
a) the author of "living alone is the new norm" uses research to convey his ideas, while the author of " will wi-fi ruin mount everest" largely relies on personal experience
Explanation:
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From Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
"A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything, because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague".
The figurative language in lines 5 through 7 establishes a tone of
1) loneliness
2)confusion
3)desperation
4)shame
Answer: 3)desperation
Explanation:
The description of the grandmother´s bad mood like something contagious as a plague shows the desperation the character feels in that situation. The grandmother being unhappy and therefore mean to those who live with her, pushes the narrator and everyone in that family to desperately find somewhere else for her to live.
This excerpt from the "los Angeles Sunday Times" (June 1899) might reflect <span>society’s discomfort with women’s emerging independence in 1899 (option A). It is suggested that the author of the book (Kate Chopin) wrote an "</span>unhealthy introspective and morbid in feeling as that sort of woman must inevitably be".
The aspect of cultural context which the question addresses is <span>values.
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