The answer is: [C]: the shot heard round the world:
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Explanation: "Hyperbole" is a literary device or technique that involved exaggeration.
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From the answer choices given, the term: "shot heard round the world" is the only choice that fits this definition.
Could a single "shot" really be heard: "round the world" ??
However, there could have been widespread consequences of a shot (even a single shot); or even worldwide consequences.
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It certainly could be heard "round the field"; thus eliminating answer choice "D".
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Answer: B
Explanation:
: The correct answer is: By connecting readers to her students.
Explanation: The excerpt mentions that her students were children of farm workers and came to school barefoot and hungry. She wanted to do more than just be a teacher so she quit her teaching job in order to help the parents of her students fight for better working conditions. We can connect with her students by understanding that her students were very poor children and seeing this, Dolores Huerta preferred to help them improve their living conditions by helping their parents obtain more rights than continue being a teacher. She was moved by her students and devoted to this cause.
Answer:
Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option C.
The reference to “pennies” reveals the historical context of the story.
Explanation: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a novel by Betty Smith which was published in 1943 during the world war II. The story was based on an impoverished but aspirational girl and her family in the Williamsburg,Brooklyn. However in the excerpt the reference to pennies reveals the historical context of the story. Because the penny remarks the time of the incident based on the story. Referencing to the penny readers can imagine the time and place of the story.
Other options in the question is not regarding the historical context of the story. They are the settings of the writer's view.
So the pennies refer to the historical context.
It could be average or intermediate.
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