Answer:
The answer is Option B: "The narrator declares that he will die but the reader does not know why."
Explanation:
In the passage from "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe claims that he will die tomorrow and he needs to unburden his soul regarding some regular household events that are terrifying to him. He says the event is unbelievable but that he is not crazy. He states there may be someone else who can explain what happened more calmly and concretely so that it might not seem to wild and dream-like as he feels it is. The author is about to start telling us about what happened that led to his death, or at least that is what is implied in this passage.
Answer:
The "scarce" bit is the three chapters, which is a tiny portion of the book. So the modifier "scarcely" needs to go directly before the words it modifies.
Philip had read scarcely three chapters.....
Explanation:
If, for example, the situation was that Philip just glanced at the book, you could say "Philip had scarcely looked at the book when he found out...."
<em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> is the best known novel of author Zora Neale Hurston and it was published in 1937.
This excerpt is a critique of the prevailing racial attitudes of the time. Mrs. Turner, a Christian believer, would equate everything that was godly and sacred with caucasian characteristics, including the major characters in the Bible. In practice, this not only meant that black features were seen as less desirable and less "holy," but it also reminds us of the fact that slavery and racism were often justified and legitimized through religion.
It would be
"The leaves were thick and green" is the correct form of writing this sentence.
