Read the excerpt from a persuasive text.
voting is an essential element of american society, and everyone should exercise their right to vote. if you fail to vote, you are your duty as a citizen and discarding your right to have your voice be heard.
which word completes the sentence and has the most emotional impact?
overlooking
missing
forgetting
neglecting

The correct answer is neglecting.  

Overlooking means fail to notice something and is not correct because every citizen knows they duty to vote. Missing in this context does not fit because missing something is accidental. Forgetting doesn't apply in this case, mainly because of the many reminders and ads shown to all the citizens in order for them to go and vote. Hence, the correct answer is neglecting, which means that the citizens are failing to care properly about their duty.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

pulling in the reader is important