Answer:
A The narrator thinks less of her mother because she is too rigid and does not take risks.
Explanation:
In "Safety in Numbers" we are presented the mother of the narrator who is a Chinese woman established in America and extremely strict with her daughter's studies, besides being an extremely cautious person and committed to not taking any risks.
The narrator thinks that the life that her mother stipulated and that imposes on all family members is a mediocre life, especially when she discovers that her mother was a great activist who fought against the Chinese government and took a great risk of life. .
In short, the narrator believes that her mother's life has become small because she is very strict and is not at risk.
Answer:
From the given passage above from The Odyssey - Penelope, the line from the passage that best shows that Penelope is clever is: and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians. What makes Penelope very clever is that, her suitors agreed with her condition which is she needs to weave the great loom. But never did they know that every night by torchlight, she is unweaving it and she'll weave it again the next day. And this went on for three years.
Explanation:
Rukeyser wrote this poem in 1968 amidst the Vietnam war, Civil Rights Movement and similar political and social trends. The poem has got a morning and evening phases, respectively describing war and peace where the evening phase begins with the lines "As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened". The content of the lines is associated with the peace and the victory of this idea. Therefore, the correct answer is C.
- Diggers, corkscrewing cleanly in, exhilerausted, into the mind mine, impaled on edgeless shafts of subtle reminiscence, green- walking across the belts and ties.
In this sentence, the author uses words such as the "mind mine" and "reminiscence," which imply that the subject of his poem spends a lot of time alone with his thoughts. This lack of company or interaction with others highlight issues of isolation and alienation.
- Slanted dark-walked time, wet with ages of dryness, Raga of insignificance & blessed hopelessness.
"Dark-walked time," "ages of dryness," "insignificance" and "hopelessness" allude to the lack of <em>presence</em> of the subject. It also points to feeling small and unimportant. Loneliness often has these effects (feeling insignificant, feeling like there is no purpose to existence, not being present in the moment). Therefore, the sentence reiterates the suffering of alienation and isolation.
Answer:
Run-on sentences make text more difficult to read.
Run-on sentences can change the intended meaning of a text.
Run-on sentences can make a sentence confusing.
Explanation:
A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) are not connected properly. An example of a run-on sentence is a comma splice, which occurs when independent clauses are connected with just a comma.
Example: <em>It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark. </em>
To correct a comma splice, you can add a conjunction between the clauses, use a semicolon instead of a comma, or make each independent clause its own sentence.
Run-on sentences make the text difficult to read and cause confusion. They can even change the intended meaning of the text. For example, sentences <em>I saw a teacher who cares.</em> and <em>I saw a teacher. Who cares? </em>have completely different meanings.
