Answer:
B
Raises an objection and then overrides it with an assertion.
Explanation:
From the question, IF is a word which is used to raise an objection to a given sentence which could help in showing why something that happened actually happened. In the context in which it was used, it shows that the author raises an objection and then overrides it with an assertion.
Write for your reader, not yourself.
Use pronouns when you can.
State your major point(s) first before going into details.
Answer: Men are usually portrayed as the protector, strong and agressive
people in literature, while women are more of the fragile, calm, housewife, and proper types of people in literature.
Explanation: I have seen this in <em>The Secret Garden, </em>when they go on judging Mary Lennox, the main character, for not being proper or pretty.
Answer:
D. In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns
Quite worriedly toward the disaster
Explanation:
Brueghel's Icarus refers to a painting made by Pieter Brueghel, which puts the spotlight on the townsmen who were around during Icarus' mythological fall from the sky since he flew too close to the sun. It depicts the indifference of the witnesses, who were busy engaging with their pursuits to bother paying attention to the fact that Icarus had just fallen. Since Auden's poem is written in honor of the painting, (D) would be the best answer if the painting instead depicted the witnesses' concern over what is happening instead of indifference.
Answer:
oxymoron: Is a group of contradictory words placed as a pair in a sentence.
personification: This is the assignment of a human characteristic to a non-living thing.
Explanation:
An oxymoron in a sentence contains a set of contradictory words placed together in a sentence. For example in the sentence; <em>Driving is a necessary evil</em>, the pair of words necessary evil are contradictory because they seem to be the opposite of themselves.
Personification gives the attribute of humans to things that have no life in them. For example, in the sentence, <em>The sun smiled at him</em>, the sun is given the quality of a human which is, smile.
