Ruby is using a chart to interpret a poem she is reading, Meaning Figurative language Greedy river waters swallowed rocks and earth How I can connect *Someone who is greedy is selfish *Selfish people take everything they can get *Someone who is greedy would swallow a large amount Which best fits in Ruby's chart under "Meaning"? O The river took a large amount of rocks and earth. * The river is selfish and will not share with others. O Rivers swallow rocks and earth to survive. O Rivers do not get along with other natural objects ​

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.