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Read the excerpt. Which phrase best completes the sentence?
One effect of the flashback in this story is to create
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Pandora's Post
by B. K. McSwain
Lillian couldn't believe how out of hand everything had become after her innocuous
post it was only supposed to entertain her friends. After all, Skye was an incredible
singer/songwriter, and Lillian only wanted her friends to know, but now. Skye was not talking
to her, and she was in danger of losing her new best friend. It all started three weeks ago
when Lillian was at Skye's house and Skye mentioned she played the guitar,
"How have we been friends for so long and I never knew you played?" Lillian asked.
Six months is not that long, but it does seem like we've known each other for years."
Skye admitted, strumming the guitar. Then she began a melody that captivated Lillian and
when she began singing, Lillian couldn't believe her friend was so talented. She fumbled with
her phone until she had accessed the video camera and began recording the impromptu
performance.
"This is so going up on my page!" Lillian announced and before Skye could protest the
song was posted to her social media page, and before Skye could insist she take it down. It
had 15 "likes." Lillian convinced her friend to let it stay, and they would ve forgotten all about
it had it not gone viral.
Now. Skye was fielding calls from all over the country from music producers wanting her
to record with them. The producer of a morning show had invited her to perform on live TV.
and local news people were camped in her yard. Not only had Lillian not known about her
friend's talent but she had not known about her friend's modesty that bordered on
diffidence, and this deplorable lack of self-confidence had caused Skye to become a hermit in
her house trying to avoid the publicity

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~courtney

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".

the meaning of the word broods in verb form is a family of animals used in section 2

the metamorphosis is based on an evident father-son problem. this story shows, as a result of the unthinkable transformation of the son in an insect, the deformation and destruction of the individual caused by the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the family. the narrative begins with the transformation into an insect of enormous proportions of the traveling salesman gregor samsa, a lonely, introverted and submissive, who keeps his family with his work. when he worked, he was appreciated by everyone, but, now that he can not work, he is despised, especially by his father, but this is going to be joined, painfully for the protagonist, first his mother and, finally, his own sister, grete, with whom he had held a special relationship of complicity and affection for many years.

condemned by a deep sense of responsibility, gregor fears the reaction that his frightful aspect will incite in his family. he feels guilty for not being able to continue being useful to the beings he maintained. his own family, however, is ashamed and runs away from him, and even tyrannizes and resists him. the father, of a severe and despotic character, humiliates him and treats him with great cruelty. all his attempts to escape from the confinement to which he is subjected in his own room fail before the hostile rejection of the beings that surround him. prisoner in his lair and unable to continue playing the only function of making money he had, finally chooses, with the consent of his parents and sister, to die of starvation. with this, he is freed from a servile and unhappy existence. the family appreciates gregor while he fulfills the interests. but when he is unable to continue earning money, it becomes a problem, a shame, and family relationships begin to become tense, until coexistence becomes impossible.