Read the excerpt from midsummer by derek walcott.   the leaf stems tug at their chains, the branches bending like boer cattle under tory whips that drag every wagon nearer to apartheid.  this excerpt makes an allusion to the second boer war, which was fought among the united kingdom, the south african republic, and the orange free state between 1899 and 1902. which statement best describes the effect of the allusion?   a.  it the reader understand why the war was fought and how the war ultimately ended. b. it evokes an image that the reader understand the current racial and political situation in brixton. c. it the reader understand that the author supported the second boer war and the brixton rioting.  d. it suggests that the past war is the sole reason for the current political climate in brixton.

a,b,d are the three sentences that use a reflexive pronoun

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.