Hello. Did you forget to show that the underlined words to which the question refers are: cruel favor
In addition, you forgot to show the answer options. The options are:
The underlined figure of speech is ________ (choices: a euphemism, a simile, a metaphor, an oxymoron)
The reader can infer that ________ (choices: the narrator plans to take up baking with Lisette, the narrator feels that Lisette should do her more favors, the narrator will pretend to enjoy Lisette's brownies, the narrator suspects that Lisette is dishonest with her)
Answer:
1. euphemism
2. the narrator will pretend to enjoy Lisette's brownies
Explanation:
Euphenism is the figure of speech that has a lighter and more pleasant term, softening a bad meaning of another term that could be used. In this case, when the narrator says that Lisette took the Brownies as a "cruel favor" he wanted to soften the meaning that eating her brownies would be a bad experience.
Furthermore, by using eupenism, the author reinforces the idea that since Lisette is a very kind person, he will pretend to like the brownies, even if he doesn't like it.
They don’t know whether or not the promises that were made will be kept.
I got a 100 on that question, and this is what I put
Answer:
"We shouldn't worry too much, though, because it is precisely our mistakes that teach our children the most about life."
Explanation:
According to the given sentence, the claim of the author is that "Shielding our children from [mistakes] by striving for perfection in our own parenting does them no favors."
Therefore, the sentences from the passage that most directly expresses the counterclaim is "We shouldn't worry too much, though, because it is precisely our mistakes that teach our children the most about life."
A claim is the main argument of a text while a counterclaim is the opposing argument to the claim.
There are a lot of answers to this question depending on
the given choices to choose from. So next time please be kind enough to include
the choices. I can give you three possible answers for this question, now it
all depends on you to choose which one of these three are in the choices:
Select 1:
1. Readers are forced to consider the possible monstrous
actions inside of themselves, like hatred or prejudice.
2. The monster challenges readers to recognize that a
monster could be an ordinary person, not just an outcast.
3. Readers must consider that monsters live among them, maybe
in their own town.
We can actually see that the commonality in the three
choices tells us that the monster does not really refer to the monsters
depicted in fiction. However, monsters could be just ordinary person, it could
even perhaps refer to us. What makes us a monster is our personality, not our
appearance.
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