Which of the following excerpts uses a parenthetical remark to create a conversational style?
O A. It may represent the closest American literature came to
producing an analog for "Ulysses," which influenced it deeply-
each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man
trying to awaken from history - and like "Ulysses," it lives as a
book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.
B. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this
- they're markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly
adjective clusters
C. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to
entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the
Civil War.
D. Most of the time, it's a white character using the word - or, most
conspicuously, the novel itself, in its voice - with an uglier edge.

In the section the deciding pitch what is the narrators point of view on how th pitcher feels about the upcoming event

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

Which is an example of perfect iambic pentameter? a. "i have been worth the whistle." b. "whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick," c. "a man, a prince, by him so benefited! " d. "ere they have done their mischief. where's they drum? " e. "marry, your manhood, mew! "