What does the word "mortar" mean in the following passage? when the last grain of corn was ground into flour, kaddo called the girls together and said, “now bring water from the spring. we shall mix it with the corn flour to make mortar out of it.” so the girls brought water in water pots and mixed it with the flour to make a thick mortar. then kaddo ordered them to make bricks out of the mortar. need asap

I'm not quite sure about this, but mortar is like a cement used to bond bricks and building materials to each other. That's the closest meaning I could find.

both the address and the poster use diction to convey their message. diction is defined as a style of writing or speaking based on the types of words chosen in order to send a message. parallelism is when a similar sentence structure is used for several sentences on a text; roosevelt's address doesn't follow that. repetition has to do with repeating a word or sentence in order to emphasize and idea, however neither the poster nor the address use repetion. finally, the address doesn't use images to convey a message.

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.