“Good mornin,” Jim said, loud, but not too loud. There was no answer. “Good mornin to ya, cooter,” Jim said, a bit louder this time. No answer again. “Well, I knew it,” said the slaveowner. “Dang you, Jim, you fooled with me one time too many!” And he raised his whip to thrash Jim as hard as he could.

Just then, they heard music, a fiddle playin nearby. And right there the cooter came climbin out of the pond. He walked on his back legs and he had that fiddle tucked up under his chin like any ole fiddler. He was playin away on it, too.

“Good mornin,” he said, and kept on playin. Then he commenced to sing:

“Jim, I told you you talk too much.
Run along and find you freedom place.”

Mebbe Jim did talk too much. But that was how he got his freedom.

—“Carrying the Running-Aways,”
Virginia Hamilton

How does the narrator’s viewpoint compare to the turtle’s in this passage?

The narrator and the turtle both agree that Jim talks too much.

The narrator and the turtle both wish that Jim would learn to play the fiddle.

The narrator and the turtle both love to play the fiddle for the plantation owner.

The narrator and the turtle both dislike Jim.

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What lines in this expert from act v of shakespeare’s romeo and juliet create dramatic irony

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)