Read the sentence from life on the mississippi. the passenger who could not read it was charmed with a peculiar sort of faint dimple on its surface (on the rare occasions when he did not overlook it altogether); but to the pilot that was an italicized passage; indeed, it was more than that, it was a legend of the largest capitals, with a string of shouting exclamation points at the end of it; for it meant that a wreck or a rock was buried there that could tear the life out of the strongest vessel that ever floated. which best explains how the portrayal of italicized letters and capital letters support the meaning of the sentence

here here are the quiz answers thats all i can do hope i was able to =]    

i see some of you tried the true/false quiz of what was real and what was made up in little women. no one got 100% but you were very close! here are the answers:

hannah the servant  false– the alcotts could not afford any servants in those daysthe christmas play (“the witches’ curse, an operatic tragedy)  true  – this play is actually a composite of actual plays written and performed by louisa and anna.amy burns jo’s manuscript  falsemarmee’s temper  trueamy falling through the ice  falsejo pinching meg’s papered locks before the ball  falsemeg being dressed up as a doll at annie moffat’s  falseamy bewailing her pickled limes  truebeth receiving the piano from mr. lawrence  true  – in harriet reisen’s book louisa may alcott the woman behind little women, lizzie received a piano as a gift in walpole, nh when she was twenty from dr. henry whitney bellows (see chapter 9 in the book)mr. march’s illness  false  – louisa was writing about her own illness her civil war nursing stintjo sells her hair.  false  but it was based on something true, that louisa had all her hair cut off during her illness after the civil warbeth wasted away and died peacefully.  false  lizzie (aka beth) did waste away but she was in tremendous pain, was often quite anxious, and even went through a spell where she rejected her family and wanted to be left alone (anna said in a letter that lizzie had called her “horrid.”)jo published her first story, “the rival painters.”  trueamy writes her own will.  true?   not sure on this one (i know, i shouldn’t have included it if i didn’t know the answer! )jo rejects laurie’s love.  false

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