Answer:
The flowers in the garden grow
swaying in the field so low
everyone is planting them
the flowers, 'o thee is a gem
the flowers speak to me so high
but nothing compares to the little lullaby: LA LA LA!
the baby sleeps along the road
the flowers sway so very cold
flowers, o flowers you make me happy
and nothing is like you: so very snappy
Explanation:
The fourth line says that the flowers are a gem, and uses a metaphor. The fifth uses personification and says the flowers are speaking. The last line uses a simile and onomatopoeia in the words, LA, LA, and LA.
The word that means "an excess" in this excerpt is <u>surplus.</u>
The correct answer is B.
The description indicates the man is tough and rich. Tough because he has a square jaw and a scar above his eye. Rich because he has a diamond set into his scarfpin.
The other characteristics cannot be inferred based on this description.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is the person who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852. At the time it was published, it was either loved (usually by black people) or hated (by slave owners) because it was an anti-slavery book which portrayed a black slave as the humane person, and a white man as an evil person.
<span>(C. Present perfect.)</span>
