Answer
One of the central themes of "The Necklace" is that of appearance vs. reality. For Mathilde, the necklace symbolizes wealth, beauty, and, ultimately, shame, as she loses the necklace and goes into debt to replace it. The great irony of the story is that the necklace was a fake. Mathilde spends ten years in debt, effectively ruining her life over nothing.
Since a predicative nominative is the first noun after a linking verb (in this case 'is'), the correct answer is A, 'award'.
Until he reached the coast, Equiano reports that he was able to understand the language of the people he lived with. It can be inferred from this line that each village had its own dialect of a common African language.
The correct option is c.
Olaudah Equiano in his autobiography “Life of Olaudah Equiano” tells about the lives and struggles that a slave has to go through. The blacks of Africa, especially the children were used to be kidnapped from their family and were sold as slaves. They were separated from their mother, father, and relations and sent off far places. Their real identities were erased and were given new names. They were punished in the most inhuman way because of simple reasons.
