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Jim clearly thinks it is better to bide his time and try to convince his slave owners to let him free. The narrator of this text doesn't believe it is worth the time kissing up to the slave masters as that submissive behavior is what owners are expecting anyway and ultimately hope to achieve through the fear tactics and whipping. The narrator believed the only way to achieve freedom was to take it. It seems quite apparent that they cannot stand to stay where they are. They've developed such a sense of dignity that they would rather risk punishment than do nothing.
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A student sometimes discovers he or she doesn't like their chosen field.
Explanation:
The pronoun-antecedent agreement simply means that the pronoun agrees with the antecedent in number which can either be singular or plural (pronoun) or first person, second person, etc (antecedent).
The sentence that has a problem with the pronoun-antecedent agreement is A student sometimes discovers he or she doesn't like their chosen field because the pronoun does not agree with the antecedent in number.
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Which sound device(s) is the words morrow, borrow, and sorrow examples of? Rhyme.
Why does the speaker repeat sorrow?
The speaker repeats sorrow, because the poem is letting off the feeling of an errie, and sad feeling.
The use of rhyme would be:
"Eagrly I wished the morrow; -vainly I had sought to borrow."
There is also the sentence " Ah, distinctivly I remeber it was in the bleak december."
Bleak has mulitple meanings: Cold, empty, and grim.
Even though bleak has different meanings, those three words still make it sound sad, and depressing. <- Mood
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Direct characterization is when the author specifically tells the reader the traits of a character. In this excerpt, Dickens tells you that the woman is elderly, wise, experienced and knows what is "good for children". If Dickens had used indirect characterization, he would have need to shown her wisdom and experience by including specific examples. The reader would then be lead to develop his own conclusion about the whether or not the woman was wise and experienced.
He is scared that he would die so he did not want the sheep by him or the clock.
