Answer:
The correct answer is C. Some people "might be apt to" criticize the practice.
Explanation:
An understatement is a tool used by a speaker to make <u>a situation less important.
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In this case, the speaker shows how people were against <em>“females to become breeders”</em>. In a simpler way, they opposed the simple fact that women have children, coming to compare this act as an animal act.
The question above is incomplete, the complete version is given below:
Read this excerpt from
"Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk."
I wonder, when I look at the
bombed out peasant hamlets, the orphans begging and stealing on the streets of
Saigon and the women and children with napalm burns lying on the hospital cots,
whether the United States or any nation has the right to inflict this suffering
and degradation on another people for its own ends.<span>
How do the allusions in this excerpt reinforce the meaning of the passage?</span>
The allusions clarify the geographic locations visited by the
author.
The allusions recall specific locations and horrors of the
Vietnam conflict.
The allusions question the Vietnamese for allowing such a
violent war.
<span>The allusions criticize the political philosophies that
encourage suffering.</span>
<span>ANSWER</span>
The correct option is this: THE ALLUSION CRITICIZE THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES THAT ENCOURAGE SUFFERING. Allusion is a figure of speech, which refers to an object or a circumstance from an external context. In the passage given above, the author is questioning the political morality behind war. War usually result in great suffering for all involved and the author is wondering, if is morally correct for countries to be settling their differences by mean of warfare.
Answer:
The excerpt from the poem that suggests the inevitability of the result Okonkwo fears is "The ceremony of innocence is drowned; "
Explanation:
The biggest fear of Okonkwo is to see the traditions and beliefs as well as the kind of life that mane ancestors preserved in African villages doomed because of modernization and influence of cities and the new kind of life, the sentence "The ceremony of innocence is drowned " talks about how this invasion is destroying everything that was natural and sacred.
Answer: Choice A
Explanation:
It uses the correct plurality of Whitecaps
