Answer: C. To reject or treat with disgust.
Explanation: denotation is the literal meaning of a word, the one that we can find in a dictionary, connotation is the meaning given by the context of the word, or also by the readers based on their emotions or personal experiences. In the given excerpt the connotation or meaning from the context of the word "spurn" is to reject or treat with disgust, we can infer that by noticing that the excerpt in general have a negative tone about fate, death and hope.
Answer:
author explains how she learnt about life's uncertainty and how things can change easily.
Explanation:
In the "Early Dismissal" by Robin Wasserman, the author explains how she learnt about life's uncertainty and how things change easily at a very young age. She tells about how her innocence had blindfolded her about people's commitment and friendship.
Being a shy and passive person, the author says that she always treasured that one best friend she had during childhood. The author compares herself with Anne from 'Anne of the Green Cables', a fictional character who treasures bonds, friendships and partnerships wholeheartedly.
So when she finds out that her best friend doesn't regard her the same way like she does, her whole fascination and imagination of 'kindred spirits' shatters and gets broken. She then compares this experience of how grown-ups deal with life and how things can change anytime.
However, in the end, the author adds that she still believes in the idea of forever. Giving the readers a sense of how she is still innocent deep down inside.
Answer:
Due to him being writer he probably saw them as exotic worlds so A.
Explanation:
Answer:
The name of the website
Explanation:
Using the MLA guidelines, the information that should be listed first in the citation for this source is the name of the website, since the name of the author, in the case shown in the question above, is not available. In summary, we can say that the correct thing, according to the MLA, is that the first information is the name of the author, if the name of the author is not available, the correct thing is that the first information is the name of the website, as shown below:
A Day for Trees, US Department of Agriculture, January 10, 2014. <web address>. Accessed April 18, 2014.
Answer:
D. "Love."
Explanation:
John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a recollection of when the poet addresses an ancient Grecian Urn. The lines in the question are from the second stanza of the poem.
This ancient item has a picture of a young man and his lover, him playing a pipe and she lying under a tree. Keats exclaims that the unheard melodies that he is playing are much sweeter than anything else as they are unaffected by time. The young man may not be able to kiss his love but he should not worry for they are already engraved in the picture which will forever stay. They are frozen in time, with their beauty intact and their love will last forever no matter how time goes.
