Read the excerpt from on the road. one day i was hanging around the campus and chad and tim gray told me dean was staying in a cold-water pad in east harlem, the spanish harlem. dean had arrived the night before, the first time in new york, with his beautiful little sharp chick marylou; they got off the greyhound bus at 50th street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in hector’s, and since then hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol of new york for dean. which statement best describes how kerouac’s diction contributes to his writing style? kerouac uses academic terms to give his writing an intellectual quality. kerouac uses youthful slang to give his writing a rebellious quality. kerouac uses location names to give his writing a historical quality. kerouac uses abstract vocabulary to give his writing a detached quality.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Who was the last member of the stuart line whose death left britain without a clear successor? a. george i b. queen anne c. charles ii d. queen elizabeth

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction