Read the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" and answer the question. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout
for the mendicancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric
button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring,
What is the meaning of the word coax as it is used in the passage?
force
persuade
expect
repair

Select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from black beauty by anna sewell, identify the transition word or phrase.

What central idea does this passage develop? the impact of fate the integrity of leaders the ruthlessness of power the importance of friendship

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.