Which of the following is the best indication that sandra cisneros's book the house on mango street is a coming-of-age story?
a. the author tells the first-hand account of her life from birth to the present.
b. the author describes the events of one specific time in her life.
c. the author defers to a third person to relate her life events to the reader.
d. the author uses age-appropriate language to tell the story of her birth.?

What prediction did douglass’ owner master make about what would happen if he learned to read? did it come true? why or why not?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Boss: oh no! that’s the phone again! secretary: blank boss: . a. shall i take it? b. will you answer it? c. can you do me a favor? d. may i hang it up?