Read the following excerpt from katherine anne porter's "the jilting of granny weatherall": she tried to remember. no, i swear he never harmed me but in that. he never harmed me but in that . . and what if he did? there was the day, the day, but a whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully in orderly rows. what is one purpose of the symbolism used in this passage? a. to compare granny to "a whirl of dark smoke"b. to link two unlike concepts: a field and mountainsc. to make a connection between granny and the readerd. to illustra

To illustrate the destruction of Granny's dream

D.) to illustrate the destruction of granny's dream.

Explanation:

When expressing something through symbolism, the author tries to imply something through abstract representation, there is a focus on what emotions or ideas the symbols used, and what they convey in the reader. In this case, the smoke is used to illustrate negativity in that memory and contrasts that negativity with the fields planted, therefore it is establishing that it negatively impacted that drEam.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things