Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"Why don't they hurry, why don't they hurry ..." muttered Jem.
We saw why. The old fire truck, killed by the cold, was being pushed from town by a crowd of men.

In the excerpt above, which word has a connotative rather than a denotative meaning?

old
killed
pushed
crowd

Read this excerpt from mohandas gandhi's "banaras hindu university speech." what is the speaker's purpose a. to persuade his audience to struggle for self-governance through peaceful means b. to urge wealthy indians to act instead of merely talk about poverty c. to inform the audience that the british colonial power is stealing indian resources d. to persuade his audience to renounce materialistic wealth and pursue spiritual wealth

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "

Why can’t the man get the third fire started?