Helppp!! Read the following
passage and answer the questions that follow.
You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins. marches and so forth? Isn't
negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed. this is
the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis
and foster such a tension that a community which
has constantly refused to negotiate
is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer
be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent
resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the
word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of
constructive. nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. lust as Socrates felt
that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise
from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative
analysis and obiective appraisal. so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to
create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of
preiudice and racism to the maiestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The
purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it
will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Question: What is King's main purpose in this passage?

a. To create tension.

b. To explain the purpose of the direct action program

c. To align his program with Socrates.

What is the effect of this dialogue? it creates an air of suspense in the plot. it shows how angry the characters are. o it describes details of the castle setting. o it entertains through the use of clever wording.

Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite "on the road to mandalay.” she only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use. she repeated the line over and over again in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice; it seemed to the bachelor as though some one had had a bet with her that she could not repeat the line aloud two thousand times without stopping. whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet. "come over here and listen to a story,” said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord. the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation. in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. which instances of situational irony occur in the passage? select two options. a.) “whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet.” b.) “‘come over here and listen to a story,’ said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord.” -- c.) “the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.” d.) “evidently her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high in their estimation.” -- e.) “in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”

Can you guys me with the story things fall apart?