Answer:
American poet John Godfrey Saxe creating his own version as a poem, with a final verse that explains that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced.
Answer:
The background knowledge that when he was treating humans and kept pets, people stopped coming to him for treatment and he became poor.
Explanation:
While reading the story, Sweet T must have read of the time when Doctor Dolittle was treating humans and kept a lot of pets. People did not like the animals and they soon stopped coming to him for treatments. He began losing money and soon became very poor.
This background knowledge would help Sweet T make the inference that since pet owners were scared of bringing their sick pets to Dr. Dolittle, he would be losing money and would soon become poor again.
Answer:
C. Dramatic irony.
Explanation:
Dramatic irony is when the audience or readers know the scenes or events of the story that the characters don't. In other words, dramatic irony is when we know what will happen or are privy to parts of the story's plot which the characters don't know.
In the given scene from Act V scene iii of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", we can know the real condition of Juliet's red lips. We knew that she had taken poison to make her appear dead but will wake up later, which Romeo has no idea about. So, this is dramatic irony, where the readers or audience know some detail about the scene which the character(s) involved don't know.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.
Answer: The main reason a speaker might use exclusive language is to <em>highlight differences between opposing sides.</em>
Explanation: Exclusive language is language that actively excludes something or someone.
