Jing-mei wanted to show her gratitude to Mr. Chong. So with her mother's permission and her help she decided to give to her old almost deaf teacher the piano as a present.
Answer:
B. The first syllable of each foot is stressed.
Explanation:
In poetry, there are various elements that make it a work of art. These elements add life to the poem, with the different elements such as the meter, rhyme, form, etc consisting of the building blocks of the poem.
A trochaic meter is the metrical feet where the two syllables of a word are contrary to each other. The first syllable is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Thus, <em><u>one characteristic of the trochaic meter is the stressed first syllable of a foot.
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Thus, the correct answer is option B.
Answer:
a. It produces shivers down the spine, or a feeling of unease.
Explanation:
Washington Irving's "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture" is a gothic story where the characters staying in the house were talking, sharing stories of haunted places. And the host of the house had 'in jest' said that one of the rooms was haunted, so the her of the nigh will be revealed the next morning after they had all spent their nights in their own allotted rooms.
The passage in the question gives the details of the narrator's room. he had seen a picture hanging in his allotted room and had been unable to ignore it. He felt all sorts of uneasiness, unable to even sleep properly, constantly thinking there's someone hovering above him. The tone of the passage gives us a feeling of horror, sending shivers down the spine, making us feel uneasy. This passage makes it possible that the room was indeed haunted, making even us, the readers, scared of what will happen and what really is the picture about. It spreads a feeling of uncomfortable, and scared feeling in the narrator and the readers altogether.
The correct answer is While breaking one pencil during the SATs is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal.
Because abysmal is an adjective, and in the rest of the examples it is incorrectly used instead of a noun.
I'd say the answer is D), the Beats emulated Ezra Pound's beliefs in civil disobedience, because their tactics are somewhat similar.
