b. Reading on a daily basis is very important for building your vocabulary.
c. Pronunciation is an important part of adding new words to your vocabulary.
d. Using the dictionary is only one step in the process of vocabulary building.
This is an example of which epic convention?
lengthy speech
digression
epic simile
divine intervention
Answer: D) Divine Intervention.
Explanation: An epic is a long narrative poem, about a serious topic, and that develops around a heroic or almost divine character. The epic conventions are characteristics that epic poems usually have in common. In the given passage from "The Odyssey" we can see an example of the epic convention of divine intervention. Divine intervention is simply the participation of gods in the life of mortals, in this case, Athena (a goddess) is giving advice to Telemachus (mortal, son of Odysseus).
The correct answer is “it was formerly the custom in our village when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers which were crossed to represent the granting of a jail window, “How do ye do?”
The line from “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau that may have influenced John Lewis beliefs is: “it was formerly the custom in our village when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers which were crossed to represent the granting of a jail window, “How do ye do?”
Henry D. Thoreau wrote “Resistance to Civil Government (Civil DIsobedience)” in 1949. He asked people to never allow a bad government to influence their lives. John Lewis is a civil rights activist and a former Congressman. He received inspiration form Thoreau ideas.
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b. indigestion
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