Select the descriptive Adjectives from the second paragraph of The Red Badge of Courage

The second paragraph of "The Red Badge of Courage"

Selection of the Descriptive Adjectives:

certain tall

reliable

truthful

trustworthy

division

important

Explanation:

a) Descriptive adjectives express the size, color, or shape of a person, a thing, an animal, or a place.  As adjectives, they add more information to a noun by describing or modifying it.

b) Data from the Second Paragraph of "The Red Badge of Courage:"

"Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in red and gold."

c) The adjectives are underlined in bold letters with the nouns or adjectives that they describe or modify.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.