English 12 A semester exam unit 6 lesson 2 (4 short answer questions)

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Consider these text features from chapter 1 of wheels of change by sue macy. as the demand for bicycles grew in the 1890s, so did the demand for accessories—such as bells, locks, and lamps—and repairs. this photograph shows the joseph h. ferodowill bicycle repair shop in st. paul, minnesota, in 1899. this photo and caption enhance the book’s information about .

Read this statement: "but old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs." how is this statement related to figurative language? this statement demonstrates personification. this statement demonstrates a hyperbole. this statement demonstrates a onomatoepia. this demonstrates a simile.