Read the sentences from the text. In a cotton mill in Georgia, boys and girls had to climb onto a frame in order to reach and re
place empty bobbins. A bobbin is a kind of reel for holding thread. Which word from the sentences is a homophone for a word that means “not imagined or made up; actual”?
Reel is a homophone for the word real. Even though the words are spelled differently, they are pronounced the same. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Real means actual; not imagined. Reel is a spool on which thread is wound. You can also reel in a fishing line.
An authors bias for or against something" is the correct definition of slant in a literary sense, but of course "slant" can also refer to an angled or inclined surface.
