Answer:
Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.
What is the meaning of the figurative language in this passage?
There was a gate with blood on it at the plantation where Douglass lived.
Douglass had to go through great pain during his escape from slavery.
Being enslaved was the worst experience imaginable.
Douglass was spared the worst kinds of physical torture that other enslaved people faced.anation:
<span>1. The Puritans considered buttons a (sign) of vanity. - C. object complement (the object is buttons, and the word sign completes it)
2. </span><span> At first the old trunk in the basement appeared (empty). - E. predicate adjective (the first adjective after the linking verb appeared)
</span><span>3. Michelle showed (Mom) a copy of the yearbook. - B. indirect object (Mom is indirect, and a copy of the yearbook is direct)
</span><span>4. Kim named her (dog) Trixie. - A. direct object (named whom?)
5. </span><span>The performance was a huge (disappointment). - D. predicate nominative (the first noun after the linking verb was)</span>
The correct answer is B.
Readers are aware of Juliet's plan. They know she is planning to fake her death and run off with Romeo. Therefore, when Capulet says these lines in preparation for Juliet's wedding to Paris, readers know he is totally unaware of what is about to happen.
Furthermore, tension is increased when he talks about his happy feeling (my heart is wondrous light), which we know will drastically end in the morning when he finds his daughter has taken her life. Therefore, this speech increases the tension because we know Juliet has no intention of following her father's wishes.
