b. Soda keeps Darry and Ponyboy together.
c. Soda wishes he still had his horse.
d. Soda was in love with Sandy.
B. Sentence 5
C. Sentence 7
End of exam
D. Sentence 2
What is the meaning of this excerpt?
A.The prison and cemetery were built early, with the cemetery expanding in size from its original plot.
B.The prison was built near Cornhill, and the cemetery was built on an important man’s property.
C.Just as Puritans gathered at the prison, they also gathered at the cemetery and the church.
D.The forefathers of Boston chose the two most famous landmarks: the prison and the cemetery.
Using comprehension strategies, the meaning of excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter is “The prison and cemetery were built early, with the cemetery expanding in size from its original plot (A).” Comprehension Strategies are a set of steps that the reader uses to understand the text well.
EXPLANATION
Comprehension strategies is often applied by educational institutions such as a school for its students. Approximately, there are seven steps in comprehension strategies. One of them is “identify word and sentence meanings in order to decode the text.” This step is the one that is applied to answer the question.
Here are the following steps to answer the questions above:
- “the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house”
- “they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave”
Based on those two key sentences, it can be concluded that the founders of Boston built a prison house and burial-ground at that time, which later became part of the history of the city of Boston.
• “which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchers in the old church-yard of King's Chapel.”
The word subsequently means the continuation (by the next generation) that made a funeral around the tomb of Isaac Johnson, continued what was done by their ancestors.
LEARN MORE
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KEYWORD: Scarlet letter, Chapter 1, comprehension strategies, American Literature, Novel, The Scarlet Letter, steps of comprehension strategies
Subject: English
Class: 10 - 12
Subchapter: Literature
Answer:
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works. The BMW company is based in Germany and is known worldwide for its high quality vehicles.
Explanation:
I think it is allusion