Answer:
The excerpt comes from "Animal Farm", a work in which Orwell uses a farm ruled by animals to make an analogy of the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule.
The phrase is telling us that the characters (the animals who are under the rule of the pigs) are about to starve to death, and that death by starvation is like a ghost that is staring at them in the face, reminding them of such fact.
The literary devices used are allegory, because an abstract idea, is explained in a more concrete way.
The answer is A. because you wouldn't use ";" in a sentence like that.
Answer: for 2 it ended slavery i think and for 3 i dont know
Explanation:
Through context and also the definition of the word perpetuate, we may conclude that the best synonym would be: preserving.
Self-perpetuating is something that has the ability of continuing (preserving) its own existence without any external interference. It's something that creates the conditions for its own continuity. Another possible definition of self-perpetuating is something that prevents change and innovation by constantly creating the same old conditions - in other words, by preserving the same conditions.
In the excerpt, the cherished and self-perpetuating problem referring to the American culture was how women were taught to think, what they were told to talk about. It was a self-preserving problem since women themselves, for over fifteen years, did nothing or little to change such topics or expectations: children, house chores, happy husbands... The problem didn't need any external motivation, it was perpetuated from the inside.
A. Rather than, I feel as if it’s more of a better answer with more upgraded words, and instead of is a barebones of an answers. So go with Rather than