Near the beginning of a christmas carol, the narrator describes the london in which the action takes place as "cold, bleak, biting weather, foggy withal," and mentions that it is already dark at three o'clock. which best describes the effect of these descriptions? a. they establish this section's grim mood. b. they give the story its upbeat and hopeful tone. c. they suggest the story's focus on redemption and rebirth. d. they paint an unrealistic picture of london in the 1800s.

Select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from black beauty by anna sewell, identify the transition word or phrase.

If you were writing a descriptive paragraph about your favorite food and used compound adjectives, what piece ofpunctuation could be effective for describing the food? semicolonhyphencolondash

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.