Your question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is as follows:
Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan who lived during Colonial America. Her poems reflected elements of her personal life. In this poem, her house has burned and she has lost all of her possessions. Read the last two stanzas (lines 43-54). How do these lines reflect aspects of her Puritan beliefs?
A) She relies on her own work ethic to build her another house.
B) She is so distraught that she wishes she had died in the fire.
C) She knows that her permanent home is waiting for her in heaven.
D) She prays for an architect from town to come build her a new home.
Answer:
The correct answer is letter C) She knows that her permanent home is waiting for her in heaven.
Explanation:
In the last two stanzas of her poem "Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666", author Anne Bradstreet calls God the mighty Architect. She does not seem to repine over the house she has lost to the fire. Quite the contrary, she is faithful to the belief that her permanent home is the spiritual one waiting for her in heaven. That is a reflection of her Puritan beliefs. This world is nothing but a passageway for the next and most important one. She does not need to suffer over material losses because what truly matters is the spirit. As she says in the last line of the poem, "My hope and treasure lies above."
The purpose of Mandela's speech was not simply to address the nation as their new president and give gratitude to those who put him there but instead to make a statement that South Africa was going to make immense changes and unify to show the world what the nation could truly do in order to become a land of hope. There are a few purposes to this speech, one being to unify the nation of south Africa by bringing the blacks and the whites together. The speech was also used to motivate and inspire the people of South Africa. I know this because I've studied Mandela's life in one of my subjects at school.
The audience for this speech was the people of South Africa. He addresses every one he possibly can to broaden his audience so that every South African hears his message.
Nelson Mandela
"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people."
Mandela repeats the word negotiations as he wants to encourage and push for more negotiations - a thing that will bring them closer to freedom.
The correct word from the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher." that could be used to argue that the narrator is unreliable is the last option among the choices is: “Overpowered” suggests the narrator’s lack of control.
Answer:
Despite his passionate argument that rock lyrics are poetry, Dan DeLuca fails to convince.
Explanation:
According to a different source, these are the options that come with this question:
- When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it sparked a major controversy.
- Dan DeLuca has written an editorial stating his opinion that rock lyrics are poetry.
- I really enjoyed reading Dan DeLuca's article about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize.
- Despite his passionate argument that rock lyrics are poetry, Dan DeLuca fails to convince.
A thesis statement is the main claim that an author makes in a text. This claim expresses the ideas that the author wants to defend, and which he expands on in the rest of the text. Therefore, a thesis statement needs to express a clear opinion, or take a particular position on a subject. In this case, the option that does this is option D.
This question is missing the poem. I've found it online. It is as follows:
Fragrant
Lovely
Opened wide
Wind blows
Eager bee
- Rachelle Kreisman
What does the acrostic poem by Rachelle Kreisman describe? a flower in the springtime the sound of ducks quacking a young horse, galloping in a field flocks of little duckling
Answer:
The poem describes a flower in the springtime.
Explanation:
An acrostic poem uses the letters of its topic word(s) as the first letter of each line. Notice the first letters in Kreisman's poem spell flower:
Fragrant
Lovely
Opened wide
Wind blows
Eager bee
Besides that, each line of the acrostic poem offers a description related to the topic. In this case, we get to know the flower is fragrant and lovely, that it is in bloom, swaying with the wind while attracting bees. In summary, it is describing a flower in the springtime.
