7. which poetic device is evident in this sentence? a silence settled over the sycamores as the sun set in the south. a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. alliteration 8. the sentence in question 7 describes the a. plot. b. characters. c. theme. d. setting.

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened. joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations. b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v. represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty. c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Drag the correct answer into the box to complete the sentence. i wore a new pair of shoes for a long walk

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?