Read the following passage: The year is 2186. Since the polar ice caps melted several decades ago, humans have been struggling to survive on a planet completely covered by ocean. They subsist only on seafood and fight over scarce fuel resources to power their watercrafts. Those who are able to produce fresh water rule over those who cannot. Based on this passage, which statement best suggests that the story's setting is a dystopia? O A. An authoritarian government controls all information, OB. A natural disaster has caused people to adapt their lifestyles. C. Power is based on the ability to obtain a necessity of life. D. Not everyone has equal access to scarce resources, PREVIOUS​

Jargon is a specialized vocabulary of a particular group trade or profession

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements. it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom. oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs. it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning