Text-dependent questions
directions: for the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
1.
part a: which of the following best states a theme of the story?
sometimes you don't fully appreciate something until it is too late.
always embrace change, or you will live with bitterness.
hold strong to your traditions and stand up for them.
d. war only brings pain and loss.
part b: which paragraph from the text best supports the answer to part a?
paragraph 1
paragraph 14
paragraph 20
paragraph 31
b.)
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in paragraphs 9-12, how does the description of the setting contribute to the mood of the
story? what does this tell you about the town's attitude toward the announcement?
4.
explain the figurative language in the following quotation from paragraph 23. what is the
purpose of this comparison? "for that day monsieur hamel had prepared some entirely
new examples, on which was written in a fine, round hand: 'france, alsace, france, alsace.'
they were like little flags, waving all about the class, hanging from the rods of our desks."

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

the krebs cycle and electron transport occur in the mitochondria, though other than that i would need to know more information.

answer: i'd love to but only if you need with something within the essay. this isn't recieving . it's cheating, plain and simple. don't ask people to complete your homework for you. it's very rude. have a nice day and i hope you figure your essay out. best of luck!

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