Read the excerpt below from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and answer the question that follows. The street was jammed with masked and costumed children making a deafening din with their penny tin horns. Some kids were too poor to buy a penny mask. They had blackened their faces with burnt cork. Other children with more prosperous parents had store costumes: sleazy Indian suits, cowboy suits and cheesecloth Dutch maiden dresses. A few indifferent ones simply draped a dirty sheet over themselves and called it a costume. What do the phrases "sleazy Indian suits," "cowboy suits," and "cheesecloth Dutch maiden dresses" reveal about the setting? It reveals the cultural context by discussing popular culture. It reveals the time and place of the passage. It reveals the theme by showing the value of the penny. It reveals the syntax of small-town life.

Me, will give you 20 the main character in realistic fiction are usually dynamic; they undergo change and grow according to their experiences. louise mallard from kate chopin's "the story of an hour" is an example of a dynamic character. which of the following excerpts from chopin's story highlight the transformation that louise undergoes?

If the author of the gift of the magi had made the reader aware of the gift jim had purchased in the beginning of the story , this would be an example of

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.