Read this excerpt from “life without go-go boots” and answer the question. once i left home and went to college i was on my own, fashion-wise … . but i found i still had to reckon with life’s limited choices. after classes i worked variously as a house cleaner, typesetter, and artists’ model. i could spend my wages on trendy apparel … or on the lesser gratifications of food and textbooks. it was a tough call, but i opted for education. this was indiana and it was cold; when it was cold, it was rainy. i bought an army surplus overcoat, with zip-out lining, that reached my ankles, and i found in my parents’ attic a green pith helmet. using context clues and what you have learned about the importance of diction, what is the best meaning kingsolver intends to give to the phrase "or on the lesser gratifications of food and textbooks"? in about 75 words, discuss what the context clues were in the above excerpt that support your answer. use specific words that were clues for you.

In this excerpt, the author talks about the ways in which she spent her money during her college years. She tells us that she had to make choices about how to spend her wages. She claims that she was undecided between spending it on fashion or on "the lesser gratifications of food and textbooks."

What this phrase implies is that the author does not find "food" and "textbooks" to be nearly as gratifying as buying fashionable clothes. The statement is meant to be ironic because most people would think that food and textbooks are any student's priorities. Therefore, the statement emphasizes how important clothing is for the author.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

situational archetype describes the adventures of hero. the examples of situational archetypes are the quest, good vs evil, the task which represent respectively search, good forces, characters vs the evil ones and a certain job that must be done. from the given options, we cannot observe the subplot the beauty and the beast which is a correct answer for this question.