Literature Homework Assistance
Literature embodies an artistic expression that conveys ideas, emotions, and experiences through language. It stands as an integral aspect of human culture, embracing diverse forms and styles such as novels, poetry, drama, and essays. Beyond reflecting societal, historical, and cultural contexts, literature ignites readers' imagination, emotions, and critical faculties. It serves as a gateway to exploring the human psyche, fostering an understanding of diverse perspectives and values while delivering aesthetic pleasure. Literature profoundly influences personal development and societal progress.
- Tone is an author's attitude toward a topic In this excerpt, the author conveys a tone that could best be described as A suspicious. B mysterious. C bewildered D infuriated. During the period following the birth of Shakespeare's twins until the early 1590s, no records remain to indicate what Shakespeare was doing; some have called this period "The Lost Years." All that is known with certainty is that at some point after 1585 the young Shakespeare left Stratford and his family behind and moved to London.
- Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. In the 1930s, reporters spread out across the American South to capture the voices of history. Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Through their words we can finally begin to hear about sugar slavery from those who lived it. Ellen Betts, who grew up as a slave on a sugar plantation in Louisiana , recalled that they worked "hour in, hour out, the sugar cane fields sure stretch from one end of the earth to the other." Ceceil George remembered that she "come up in hard times-slavery times." Every body worked, young, an ole , if yo'could carry two or three sugar cane yo'worked.Sunday, Monday, it all de same __ it like a heathen part o' de country." She meant that in other states slaves got Sunday off to worship God. Not in Louisiana:There, sugar was god, and work was the only religion. How do the historical details in this passage support the authors' claim? The text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in Louisiana. The text includes a secondary source to explain why the enslaved people on sugar plantations worked seven days each week. The text includes primary -source quotations to show that religious beliefs eased the lives of enslaved people on sugar plantations. The text uses secondary sources to describe working conditions in the sugar fields on the plantations across the American South.
- Insert a subordinating conjunction to show that Amal got out of the pool when the whistle was blown by the lifeguard. Amal stayed in the pool __ the whistle was blow by the lifeguard.
- (5.) Insert articles into the spaces below. I visited __ sweet shop to buy __ bar of chocolate and __ aniseed sweet; I got 20p change from __ one pound coin I paid with. 6. Match the determiners to the correct sentences. Use each word once. many one __ person had a ticket. The room was full; __ people had come to watch the play. I only have __ sweet left.
- Underline all the determiners in the sentence below. Keren put two bowls of food and one dish of water down for the cats. Insert articles into the spaces below. I visited __ sweet shop to buy __ bar of chocolate and __ aniseed sweet; I got 20p change from __ one pound coin I paid with. 6. Match the determiners to the correct sentences. Use each word once. each many one __ person had a ticket. The room was full; __ people had come to watch the play. I only have __ sweet left.