2. Choose the answer that best describes the narrator's tone in the passage: "Johnny! What are we gonna do? They put you in the electric chair for killing
people! I was shaking. I want a cigarette. I want a cigarette. I want a cigarette."
A. concerned
B. terrified
C. cautious
D. melancholy

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?

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 "

What can the reader infer about the fears and values of the ancient greeks based on this description of the cyclops’s island?