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From Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
"A bungalow, a duplex, a brownstone, an apartment. Something, anything, because the Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague".
The figurative language in lines 5 through 7 establishes a tone of
1) loneliness
2)confusion
3)desperation
4)shame
Answer: 3)desperation
Explanation:
The description of the grandmother´s bad mood like something contagious as a plague shows the desperation the character feels in that situation. The grandmother being unhappy and therefore mean to those who live with her, pushes the narrator and everyone in that family to desperately find somewhere else for her to live.
Annabeth's actions in Chapter 18, when she distracts Cerberus with the red ball she stole, prove that she is intelligent and quick on her feet, always preparing. These are all traits of a daughter of the goddess Athena.
Answer:
D.) character versus nature is the answer.
It is the act of thinking of a scholar as a function of the whole human being.