17pts excerpt from: rebecca latimer felton: first female senator
marie devers

4 being involved with her husband’s work allowed rebecca to build a store of political contacts. she also learned the ropes of the us senate. when mr. felton retired from government service in the 1890s, rebecca continued to give speeches and write articles pointing out the injustices of the world.

based on information and context clues, what is the best definition of the word ropes as it is used in paragraph 4? a) large cords of fiber b) bindings or fastenings c) special techniques or procedures d) a string of things joined together

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

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Which literary device does orwell most use to support his purpose in writing in this passage? characters, to show that what happens on the farm is fiction allegory, to show similarities between the farm and the soviet union point of view, to show how the characters think about the murders setting, to show that events in the soviet union may have been caused by the economy