"I say," Sis Alligator say, "where you goin to?" Now Bruh Gator see there's no gettin around Sis Alligator, so he has to tell, say, "I'm goin aroun with Bruh Rabbit."

"What for you goin aroun with Bruh Rabbit?" quizzit Sis Alligator.

Bruh Gator dint want say, but he have to so he tell her, say, "I am goin for to meet Trouble."

"What Trouble is?" asked Sis Alligator.

—“Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer,”
Virginia Hamilton

How can readers tell from this passage that these two characters belong to the same setting?

They are both alligators.
They both know Bruh Rabbit.
They speak using the same dialect.
They are brother and sister.

Which words most the reader understand the meaning of usurpers

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.

How are the characters of tablin and keyn revealed in this excerpt from "the guard" by simon dunbar? a. indirectly through dialogue and by thoughts and actions b. directly through a narrative description c. indirectly through dialogue "where's my horse? " keyn asked. tablin looked around the dirt courtyard. he tried to peer through the shadowy arches of the flowing barrel. he even twisted in his saddle to look across the merchant's bazaar, past tents and warehouses filled with goods. "i don't know," he said. "did you leave it in your mouth? it's the only place i can think of that's big enough." keyn laughed; something got stuck in his throat half way, and he coughed for breath. "i can see you're good to go,” tablin observed as keyn struggled to clear his throat. “go get your horse yourself before i take the job and leave you to rot in the flowing barrel."