Which sentence from the story is an example of the author's use of physical description to develop a character?
a. "the father was respectable and tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser."
b. "about two miles from summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake."
c. "he put a red-hot boiled potato down my back," explained bill, "and then mashed it with his foot; and i boxed his ears. have you got a gun about you, sam?
d. "i ain't attempting," says he, "to decry the celebrated moral aspect of parental affection, but we're dealing with humans, and it ain't human for anybody to give up two thousand dollars for that forty-pound chunk of freckled wildcat.

What do the excerpts have in common? both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents. both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the united states. both explain why most children want to leave central america without their parents. both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in central america must face.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced

26 read this paragraph (1)they married within three years. (2)larry and kellie met on a ski trip (3)now, they are celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary (4)they clicked immediately which option places the sentences in a logical order? 0 o a. 2, 1.43 0 b. 2, 4, 1,3 0 2,4,3,1 0 2.1.3.4 reset next