Read this excerpt from Scene 3 of The Glass Menagerie. AMANDA: Come back here, Tom Wingfield! I'm not through talking to you!

TOM: Oh, go—

LAURA [desperately]: Tom!

AMANDA: You're going to listen, and no more insolence from you! I'm at the end of my patience! [He comes back toward her.]

TOM: What do you think I'm at? Aren't I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother? I know, I know. It seems unimportant to you, what I'm doing—what I want to do—having a little difference between them! You don't think that—

What is most likely the meaning of insolence?

back talk

coarseness

raging

sarcasm

Pl true or false: a hyphen can indicate that a word has been split up at the end of a line and continues onto the next line.

Read the passage. (1) the first skateboard was constructed of old roller-skate wheels attached to a piece of wood. (2) improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959. (3) the year that the first commercially made skateboard appeared. (4) soon after, skateboarding began to grow in popularity. (5) in 1963, skateboard manufacturers formed the first professional skateboarding team. (6) that same year, the first organized skateboard competition took place, in california. which is the most effective way to correct the fragment in sentence 3? attach the fragment to sentence 4. attach the fragment to sentence 2. insert the phrase in the united states to the end of the fragment. insert the verb had before the verb appeared.

Which lines in this excerpt from act iii of shakespeare’s macbeth refer to macbeth’s insecurity because of the threats to his kingship