<span>A. This sentiment is shared by Olympic-medalist Sandy Connor, who says, "in the end, it was worth every sacrifice I made to get there."
This successfully and neatly integrates a quote into the text</span>
"A Wedding Gift" is a work that portrays the importance of wedding gifts in Indian culture.
In all cultures, weddings are an important point in the lives of citizens and for this reason they are celebrated around the world in many different ways. Within this celebration, birthday gifts are very important, as they are a demonstration of affection and care between the guests and the bride and groom.
In India these gifts are taken very seriously and it is important that the guests present the bride and groom with something that embellishes and facilitates domestic life, that is, the gifts must be useful and beautiful as a set of plates and glasses, cutlery, pots, furniture , among others.
With this, the guests are wishing that the bride and groom have an easy, good, useful and efficient life.
Answer: C. He is in conflict with Ellen's family, and he resolves it by carrying Ellen away from her wedding.
The conflict that happens in Sir Walter Scott's poem is between Lochinvar and his lover's family, Ellen's. The conflict started when Ellen's father rejected Lochinvar when he asked for his daughter's hand in marriage.
Answer:
By the end of October 2012, sixty percent of the US was experiencing a drought.
Explanation:
The sentence above presents a real and proven fact that, because of its veracity, cannot be contested and revoked.
This type of argument is very important for a debate and essay, because in addition to showing that the author has studied and prepared in relation to the topic, it prevents someone from not believing and concludes that the argument is unreal, since there are concrete ways to prove it and to show it as a truth, thus providing a strong, correct, concrete, irreducible and justified argument.
Answer: A) a comparison between the sea and a cauldron, and B) a visual representation of the sea’s anger.
Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that consists in the comparison of two things that aren't obviously similar between each other, it has the function of create an image that helps to better understand the text or passage. In this case, the excerpt presents the simile "...all the sea was like a cauldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises", comparing the sea with a cauldron in a fire, which gives the reader an image that represents the anger of the sea.
