<span>"Who's Lady Evangeline?" asked Mrs. Fletcher.
"Well, it's this mind reader they got in the freak show," said Leota. "Was real good. Lady Evangeline is her name, and if I had another dollar I wouldn't do a thing but have my other palm read.She had what Mrs. Pike said was the 'sixth mind' but she had the worst manicure I ever saw on a living person."
Based on this excerpt from Welty's "The Petrified Man," what can the reader infer?
I believe the answer is </span><span>Mrs. Fletcher doesn't like palm reader</span>
False - These two devices are not similar and they are joined together to create a peculiar poetry effect.
Answer:
A "The spring of 1998 was the Halley’s Comet of desert wildflower years." (lines 1–2)
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's scientific essey "Called Out". It describes events in the spring of 1998 and gives insight on magnificent and complex life cycle of desert plants.
The given sentence provides description of the highway medians suggesting that there were unusually many flowers, rarely seen before.
That provides evidence to answer A. which claims that that spring was the Halley's Comet of desert wildflower years. Halley's Comet is a rare phenomenon that happens only once every 76 years, so by making this comparison, the author claims that what happened that spring was a true botanical rarity.
<span>The elements of epic poetry that are shown in this excerpt are the following:
</span><span>a difficult journey with trials
rhyme and repetition of words
important historical events
a hero showing perseverance\
These are important in order for the story to have a feeling of excitement the readers to appreciate it.</span>
Meager means scarce, in that there was not much available for them to eat. Therefore, they were starving and desperate for the next town to stock up.
