Women and men should be paid the same wage for the same work. Women should work outside of the home and contribute to the family income. Women should dedicate themselves to caring for their family and home.
A. because this milkmaid looks very royal and ancient
The phrases in this excerpt from Alexander Pope's <em>An Essay on Criticism</em> that are oxymorons are:
The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read,
With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head
Let's remember that an oxymoron is a <em>noun</em> that refers to a figure of speech in which, apparently, <em>contradictory terms appear in conjunction</em>.
In these lines, the character is described as both, <u><em>smart and ignorant</em></u>.
The expression "Best Beloved" “Pau Amma’s babies hate being taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles. That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right!”
Guessing the words you are comparing are "plain" and "plains" the correct answer is C. Homophone; the two words are pronounced the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings. Because <em>plain</em> and <em>plains</em> are words that sound alike; but they have different meanings as in "<em>plain</em> cream cheese" the word plain means to be pure while the word <em>plains</em> in the part "crossing the plains in Kansas" is referring to the extensive area of Kansas country; lastly they have slightly different spellings as plain and plain<em>s</em>.
Option A. Homograph is wrong because the correct definition is two words are written the same, not pronounced the same.
Option B. Homophone is wrong because the correct definition is two words are pronounced the same, not written the same.
Option D. Homograph is wrong because in this case they are written the same as the <em>bear </em>(the verb to carry) and the <em>bear </em>(the animal). But for <em>plain</em> and <em>plains</em> they are not identical as one has a <em>S.</em>
