Select the correct answer. Read the adapted excerpt from "Araby" by James Joyce.
I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to
a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girded at half its height by a gallery, surrounded by darkness in the greater part of the hall.
Nearly all the stalls were closed.
Based on the context clues, which word best defines the word girded?
ОА
shocked
ОВ. .
overwhelmed
OC impinged
OD. encompassed
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D. encompassed

Explanation:

From the excerpt given from "Araby" by James Joyce, it is narrated that the narrator while fearing that the bazaar would be closed quickly entered by paying a shilling to a weary-looking man.

It is described that the hall was "girded" at half its height by a gallery and the word "girded" means encompassed because it is the closest in meaning.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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