Answer:
"What is wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?"
Explanation:
This excerpt is about a family from the Dominican Republic that migrated to the United States and how they try to integrate and learn a new language and culture.
However, one of the females of the family says something that her father thinks is rude and thus he tells her "What is wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?"
Answer:
C. People often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett, there is a conversation between Hamm and Clov where Hamm asks if they're not beginning to mean something, to which Clov scoffs and laughs at such suggestion. And with the introduction of a rational being, Clov drops his telescope and begins to ponder.
The theme the passage mostly clearly develops is that people often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
Answer:
The correct answer is <u>A</u>: It gives a poem a sense of rhythm.
Explanation:
In her poem "Miss Rosie", Lucille Clifton repeats the phrase "when I watch you" in order to give a poem a sense of rhythm. She uses this phrase to introduce new ideas and new thoughts, by establishing an even and steady rhythm through her poem.
The poem describes an insignificant and ugly old woman, and Clifton expresses her respect for Miss Rosie's age, as she represents old people, who were respected and cherished in the best years of her life.
