Is this the excerpt you are referring to?
<span>In a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
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If so, the use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand how hot the spear actually is.
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
Explanation:
The woman is stating that it infuriates her when people form their own conclusions about a whole race dismissing individuality. She then goes on to say that there are bad black people but there are just as many bad white people.
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Answer:
The final sentence contributes to the end o the article to show we might have fun by doing something one way instead of the other and that we don't know we can enjoy it before doing it.
Explanation:
The sentences are used to point out that sometimes we act based on someone else's thoughts or opinions, and that might be not true. Also, sometimes we can find incredible experiences by trying to achieve our objectives by doing one action instead of others. That there is an infinite amount of probability we can't perceive what could be of value because we have not experienced it.
Answer:
I believe either B or D both sound right to me but im sorta thinking B.
Explanation:
B sounds better when it goes to that part of the story to me... this person seems more interested in impressing the shop girl then doing what they want. And they also said this shop girl was good looking infact thats the first thing the narrator states at the begginning of the story! <u>("A very handsome young lady"). </u>Sooooooo xD
HoPe ThIs HeLpS! :3
