“Well, Mas Tom,” he said finally, “this old raccoon, he run a long time, but they caught him at last.” When John said that, his owner, Tom, lifted the box and the smaller box. Lo and behold, a raccoon jumped out to the ground. “Well, thank you, Uncle John!” says his owner. He couldn't've been happier. See, John was a prophet and Mas Tom was a whole bunch richer. —“The Most Useful Slave,” Virginia Hamilton Based on this passage, write two to four sentences explaining why enslaved people might have seen Uncle John as a hero.

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your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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question:   read the sentence. a few of the committee members did not attend. which of the following accurately labels the bolded words? predicate nominative complete predicate simple predicate predicate adjective?

answer: complete predicate

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