Read this excerpt from an intercalary chapter in The Grapes of Wrath, And at last the owner men came to the point. The tenant system
won't work any more. One man on a tractor can take the place of
twelve or fourteen families. Pay him a wage and take all the crop.
We have to do it. We don't like to do it. But the monster's sick.
Something's happened to the monster.
Based on details in the passage, what is Steinbeck most likely trying to achieve by
including this intercalary chapter?
A. Showing how the Joads are just one family among many suffering from
corporate greed
B. Represerfting the problems faced by migrant farmers through the use of
symbolism
C. Telling the story of a different family with struggles similar to those of
the Joads
D. Illustrating to readers how the farmers are at fault for losing their land to
rich owners

Ronald sees that his employer's stock has grown from $20 a share to $60 a share this year, while most stocks have seen only 5% growth. his employer offers to let him convert a large portion of his salary into stock options. what is not a valid reason to turn down the stock offer? select the best answer from the choices provided. a. stocks with high returns have high volatility, and ronald's company may not grow further. b. ronald may be taxed more for capital gains than he would be for employment income. c. stock options are illiquid, and ronald may not be able to use them to pay for unexpected bills. d. ronald would be committing stock fraud if he exercises the options.

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

In the following line, "so many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality, " what type of rhetorical feature is wiesel using to emphasize the image?