The correct answers are the following.
In the excerpt of “The Life of Charlotte Bronte” by Elizabeth Gaskell, the meaning of the underlined words “sagacity” and “bestowing” are:
In this excerpt, the word sagacity means intelligence, acuity.
In this excerpt, the word bestowing means grant, confer.
Sagacity/intelligence is used in the text to say that the Yorkshiremen have a dogged power of will that they have as a right of birth. Bestowing is used in the text to say that their skills are bestowed/granted because they rarely require the assistance of others.
“The Life of Charlotte Bronte” was written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1857. It is Bronte’s biography.
Answer:
B. She became an English professor at the University of Georgia.
Explanation:
Judith Ortiz Cofer was a Puerto-Rican American writer who was born on February 24, 1952, and died on December 30, 2016. She was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. One of the remarkable books she wrote was A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood.
She obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Augusta College and a Masters of Arts in English Literature from Florida Atlantic University. She obtained so many awards for her notable work in literature.
Wade preparation for the egg hunt paid him off by offering him a hint about the location of the jade key.
Explanation:
Wade who is the main protagonist in the novel ready player one will train and prepare himself hard and turned into a gunter.
Gunter is nothing but the one who tends to hunt eggs.
Wade used to prepare himself for hunting the eggs without getting caught by his aunt stack. She always used to verbally abuse her nephew along with her boyfriend Rick.
Those preparation finally paid him off when he successfully completes the first gate which further gives him a clue about the location of the jade key.
Answer:
•There are plenty of giraffes and wild asses on the islands.
•The wild boars on the island are as big as buffaloes, with 14 lb tusks.
•The gryphon birds are monstrous in size
Explanation:
To the writer, the island was amazing due to the sheer amount of wildlife it has, the diversity of said wildlife as well as the characteristics they had.
The writer found the fact that there were so many giraffes and wild asses on the island to be amazing and the size of the wild boars also awed them as well. The gryphon birds being monstrous is size was another amazing thing.
