Read this excerpt from "gravity" by judith ortiz cofer: it was my clothes that visibly upset him. he could not keep himself from staring at my waist-long hair worn loose and wild but encircled, for decoration, by a headband embroidered in navajo designs. i also wore bell-bottom blue jeans torn and faded just right, and the orange sunburst tie-dye t-shirts, once his undershirts, in fact, which i had borrowed from the clothesline to experiment with. which of the narrator's main character traits does the passage most clearly develop? a. her desire to embrace her native american rootsb. her desire to become a fashion modelc. her total abandonment of her religious faithd. her need to exercise her self-expression

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. …the leaves dead are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (shelley's "ode to the west wind," stanza 1, lines 2-3) which of the following literary techniques are present in this excerpt? select all that apply. enjambment personification sibilance simile

What is the correct way of writing the following sentence? you’re headed for the big time kim said. a. “you’re headed for the big time,” kim said. b. your headed for the big time, kim said. c. you’re headed for the big time, kim said. d. “you’re headed for the big time” kim said