her tendency to act without forethought
The big downfalls for both Romeo and Juliet are their impulsive behaviors. In this Juliet does not stop to think about the fact that she will be actually killing herself this time. Before it was only fake, now it will be real. Her first reaction to seeing that Romeo is dead is to join him, so she tries for a drop of poison that may still linger.
I think the dominant irony presented in the passage would be :
The Houyhnhnms. the most rational beings on earth, are discussing the extermination of an entire group of creatures.
You can see that in this sentence, the second part of the statement contradict the statement on the first part.
Answer:
- The realistic story around a Negro insurance official, dentist, general practitioner, undertaker and the like would be most revealing.
- The realization that Negroes are no better nor no worse, and at times just as bonny as everybody else, will hardly kill off the population of the nation.
In this excerpt, Zora Neale Hurston discusses the importance of telling the stories of average African Americans. She argues that the stories that are told of this population always center on those of extraordinary people. These, she argues, are entertaining and familiar. However, the stories of common people are the most revealing. They are the ones that will prove that African Americans are just as human as everybody else.
The correct answer is C.
Even though the man was annoyed by the blows at the begining, eventually he grew accustomed to them. After five years of being hit continuously, even during his sleep, the man is now scared that the man hitting him might disappear one day, taking the familiar blows with him.
Fact A is found in passage 2
