Which choice BEST analyzes how the repeated line "And ain't I a woman?" functions in the overall argument? A)
It lets the audience know that the speaker is a woman.
B)
It reverses the common notions of women, asserting that they do not want
to be helped at all.
C)
It brings out the hypocrisy in those who say they value women but only
really value white women.
D)
It gives vivid details about the hardship that black women of the time were
forced to face in life.

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

Which sentence contains a gerund? sally is fishing on the lake with her father and brothers.marcus is supposed to be joining the discussion later today.my cat was not interested in the dangling string.her chorus director does not appreciate angela's fidgeting.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.