In the story, the author reminisces about Dismount Fort, the small town where she attended elementary school in the 1960s. After a decade, she returns for a visit but finds country life dull. At night, she passes her time by reading books and magazines and writing her boyfriend. It is while reading a narrative poem in an issue of<span> Youth </span>magazine that she remembers her elementary school teacher, Zhu Wenli, a young female teacher who taught at the school eleven years before.
The narrator remembers that Zhu Wenli was a pretty and delicate recent college graduate when she first taught at the school. Her features were exquisite, 'lacking the stern looks of a woman soldier,' and 'her voice was much too soft and too weak for those revolutionary songs' the children had to learn how to sing. Chairman Mao's words were gospel at that time, and the narrator learned to scoff at her teacher's fragile sweetness. After all, the children were being taught that 'sweet flowers are poisonous.'
1- The stress syllables are used to highlight the important words and concepts as in <em>To </em><em>speak</em><em> of </em><em>that </em><em>which </em><em>gives</em><em> thee </em><em>all </em><em>thy </em><em>might</em><em>? </em>(bold-faced parts are the stress syllables).
2- The (mostly) regular rhythm does highlight the overall emotional weight on the poem, just try it by reading it out loud as the stress syllables are easy to identify.
There is no evidence of sarcasm nor anger throughout the poem.
The answer would be C. By using parallel structure, Roosevelt emphasizes the challenge the country faces in transitioning from peacetime to wartime.
The literary device parallelism is employed to emphasize how hard it is prepare for a wartime scenario. Parallelism is used mostly to provide emphasis in many moving passages and is efficient when trying to persuade or convince one's audience.
Example:
It was dark because a new era was upon the nation. It was dark because change was coming. It was dark because the struggle had only begun.
In this example, repeating the phrase "It was dark" places emphasis on the ominous tone of the prompt and allows the reader to feel the gravity of the situation.
Answer:
She is trying to trick him into seeing her as a person instead of a meal.
Explanation:
she is trying to distract the monster until her brothers could return.
his hand dangling from the cookie jar - absolute phrase
This phrase describe the entire clause "Charles looked guilty", so it is considered and absolute phrase. An absolute phrase also had a noun and participle; the noun is hand, the participle is dangling.
the team's captain - appositive phrase, adjective phrase
This phrase clarifies that the quarterback is the team captain. An appositive phrase functions as an adjective phrase because it describes a specific noun.
Her confidence shaken - absolute phrase
This phrase contains a noun (confidence) and participle (shaken). It also describes the entire clause "Sheryl spelled the word again". These are the conditions for an absolute phrase.
the editor of the school paper - appositive phrase, adjective phrase
This phrase clarifies or renames Charlotte as the editor of the school paper.
