The following pairs of English words are cognates with the same or similar meanings. You are given the meaning of one of the words. Choose the answer that you believe gives the best definition of the second word. sheath-shed: Sheath means "a case for a blade or covering or supporting covers." Shed means "to set apart." The root of these two cognates could be:

- the Old English word scieppan, which meant "to shape."
- The Old English word scyte meaning "sheet."
- the Old Norse word skortha, which means "to prop."
- the Latin word scindere, which meant "to cut, split."
- the Greek word syntrierarch, which means "citizen."

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, i am an involved member of my community. i volunteer at the local animal shelter every saturday morning, and i build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here? a. inductive logic b. ethos c. parallelism d. text structure

Explain how dave’s search for adulthood in ,the man who was almost a man” reflects the africa-american desire to escape the poverty of the south at the time the story was written.