<span>Those
old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man
had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a
man could travel alone.</span>
Explanation:
Active voice is when someone does something while passive voice is when something is being done by someone. Even though these sound different, the <em>same thing</em> is happening in the story; it's just written differently.
Active: "Johnny bit into an apple."
Passive: "The apple was bit into by Johnny."
These are the same action being performed but written differently, see? With active voice, the main subject is at the beginning. With passive the main subject is at the end.
"Let the assembly began" is passive. Let's switch that around to active. We know that the assembly is beginning.
"The assembly is being let to begin!"
There's the answer.
Answer:
The line in the above excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is: “The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room.”
Explanation:
Situational irony, from the term itself, presents an ironic effect between the events that happened within the story. Based on "The Metamorphosis", the ones that display this kind of irony are options A and B. Gregor's father <span>uses an apple to wound him but this lead to his death instead. And, the external "blossoming" of Grete happened as she deteriorates internally.</span>
