Answer:
- He found, as he often told my sister, broken horse-shoes (a "bad sign"), met cross-eyed women, another "bad sign," was pursued apparently by the inimical number thirteen—and all these little straws depressed him horribly.
- One day on coming back home he found one of his hats lying on his bed, accidentally put there by one of the children, and according to my sister, who was present at the time, he was all but petrified by the sight of it. To him it was the death-sign.
Explanation:
The two sentences listed above characterize Paul as a superstitious person. A superstitious person is a person who strongly believes in irrational things (for example, a belief in magic). Common superstitions include:
- if you break a mirror, you will have bad luck for seven years
- if a black cat crosses your path, bad luck awaits you
- if you open an umbrella inside your house, you will have bad luck, etc.
Paul, in these sentences, is presented as someone who believes that broken-horse shoes, cross-eyed woman, number thirteen, or his hat on the bed announce that bad things will happen. All of these examples suggest that Paul is a superstitious person.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
The verb tense of looked is past tense, and the verb tense of ran is also past tense, but then the verb tense of hide is present tense.
The word <em>vegetation </em>has a neutral denotation, while the term <em>home </em>has a positive connotation.
Denotation is the concrete or main meaning of a word, in opposition to the thoughts or feelings that the word suggests. In this case, <em>vegetation </em>is a collection of plants in a particular area.
Connotation refers to the emotions and ideas that a word brings to mind, besides its literal meaning. For example, <em>home </em>is the place where one lives permanently, and implies a sense of protection, good feeling and family.
Explanation:
Creation myth, also called cosmogonic myth, philosophical and theological elaboration of the primal myth of creation within a religious community. The term myth here refers to the imaginative expression in narrative form of what is experienced or apprehended as basic reality (see also myth). The term creation refers to the beginning of things, whether by the will and act of a transcendent being, by emanation from some ultimate source, or in any other way.
