Answer:
In the excerpt from Richard Wright's autobiography "Black boy" title "the rights to the streets of Memphis" the 2 similes that describe the setting in some way are found in the following sentences:
1. "My mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea".
2. "Sometimes, when she was in despair, she would call us to her and talk us for hours, telling us that we now had no father, that our lives would be different from those of other children, that we must learn as soon as possible to take care of ourselves, to dress ourselves, to prepare our own food; that we must take upon ourselves the responsibility of the flat while she worked"
Explanation:
From the excerpt, there are similes in the above sentences that describe the setting of the story. It reveals that the family seem to be a single-parent family where the mother is left to cater for the children. The father has been away for sometime leaving the mother alone with the children. The mother gets a work as a cook in order to cater for the children.
This particular excerpt reveals the attitude of the mother in making her son fearless and to possess the ability to defend himself.
D., Life. Since it is a more vague word and its meaning carries more weight than the others, I would say it has the most connotative associations.
Answer:
A military oligarchy is a government in which the military exercises control over the people. The Spartan government was divided into two bodies: the Gerousia, or council of elders, and the Apella, or assembly. The Gerousia was similar to the Council of 500, and the Apella was similar to the Assembly in Athens
Answer:
The word that has the same root word as "intercept" is: interception.
The word part which is used to change the part of speech of the word intercept to the new part of speech is: -ion (suffix)
The part of speech this new form of the word is: noun
Explanation:
We can easily see that the words "intercept" in excerpt A and "interception" in excerpt B are very similar. What is the difference between them? Notice that "interception" has some extra letters: -ion. This is a suffix, that is, a group of letters added to a word with the purpose of changing it. While "intercept" is a verb, "interception" is a noun, precisely because of the addition of the suffix. "Interception" means the action of intercepting, that is, of preventing someone or something that is moving toward a destination.
