When a student studies the way the English language has evolved, the student is studying English’s alliteration. development. origin. repetition.

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c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

d) sarah's natural reaction to being accepted into college suggests that she has no other dreams.

mark twain, real name samuel langhorne clemens, was an american writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. among his novels are the adventures of tom sawyer and its sequel, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the latter often called "the great american novel". wikipedia