The first excerpt is satire because satire is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration.
The second excerpt is repetition. The phrase, "Now is the time..." is being repeated.
The third excerpt is rhetorical questions. Throughout the excerpt, there are questions being asked which the readers aren't supposed to be answered. Instead, the questions are there to make a point.
The answer is "He's sane."
"True - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous had I been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses not destroyed not build them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and the earth I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story."
Although he is mentally ill, he claims to be sane.
Answer:
Part A: The statement which best describes the theme of the poem is:
C. Tragedy occurs both on the grand, collective scale and on the smaller, individual scale.
Part B: The quote which best supports the answer to Part A is:
B. "It solved by itself a math problem / that multiplied the one death by millions / to equal homeland." (Lines 37 - 39)
Explanation:
I found this question online; it refers to the poem "Bag of Bones" by Dunya Mikhail.
<u>The poem's theme concerns the death of many as well as the death of one. </u>One death will bring an impact with it - in the poem, it is the mother who lost her son. When a mass grave was dug up, she was able to find his remains, which brought back the memories of when he was alive as well as the feeling of loss and injustice - his death was the result of a dictatorship.
However, many more mothers are still there, at the grave, looking for their children. That one mother's tragedy is the same tragedy of many others. <u>What the dictator has done is ruin several individual lives which, when put together, results in a collective tragedy for millions.</u>
The concept of heredity is that genes are not randomly passed down. Well, technically they are but we use punett squares to predict the chances of passing certain traits. Because virtually all traits that are dominant are more common than recessive ones, and because all genes are not passed in a completely random way, it is not just pure chance, but calculated chance by which we can predict the probability of what genes are passed down. Hope this helps!
