Read the following passage: "how can i get at it? " thought kovaloff. "everything the uniform, the hat, and so on show that it is a state-councillor. how the deuce has that happened? " he began to cough discreetly near it, but the nose paid him not the least attention. "honourable sir," said kovaloff at last, plucking up courage, "honourable sir." "what do you want? " asked the nose, and turned round. "it seems to me strange, most respected sir you should know where you belong and i find you all of a sudden where? judge yourself." "pardon me, i do not understand what you are talking about. explain yourself more distinctly." nikolai gogol, "the nose" what evidence from the text supports the idea that kovaloff is intimidated by his nose? a. "you should know where you belong" b. "what do you want? " c. "pardon me, i do not understand what you are talking about."

In chapter 3, scout criticizes her classmate, walter cunningham, for asking for molasses and then pouring it on his vegetables and meat while he was a guest at the finch home. in this scene, what does the author’s use of flashback in a first person point-of- view narration achieve?

Write a minimum 150-word response in which you explain how hughes uses poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and enjambment to reveal his theme in "theme for english b."

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion