The answer to this question would be METHAPHOR.
1. African Americans faced discrimination.
2. Encouraged a revolutionary style of art.
3. Creating an identity for African Americans
4. It provided African Americans an opportunity to create a new identity by using art to express their feelings and experiences.
5. (Paragraph 6)
If the story would have been from Laurie's perspective, A. The audience would have been afraid of Laurie's mother because Laurie is so afraid of her, and C. The audience might have known that Laurie was misbehaving at school and making up the "Charles" character to mislead his mother.
It is clear that Laurie is afraid of his mother, he wouldn't have invented Charles to cover up for his misbehaving otherwise. This fear would have appear in the story, as well as the truth of his behaviour.
Answer:
Since I don't know the context your putting the word in I'll give you all of the meanings
1: the state or fact of being completely destroyed or obliterated.
2: the act of annihilating something or the state of being annihilated
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