It is important to learn strategies for determining meanings of unfamiliar words WITHOUT looking them up in the dictionary. Why?Looking up every unfamiliar word in the dictionary increases your reading speed.
You may face certain instances in which a dictionary is not available (such as on standardized tests).
It is not actually important to learn these strategies.

The appositive phrase in the sentence "His favorite meal, chicken and dumplings, is bubbling on the stove," is "chicken and dumplings."

An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words.

It is fundamental to know that appositive is always separated from the rest of the sentence with commas, as in the sentence provided.

In the example, the appositive "chicken and dumplings" renames the noun meal (favorite meal).

I believe the answer is: Tone is the writer's attitude toward the subject and audience; style is the way something is written.

Tone is usually influenced by the principle, belief and point of view that the writer had toward a certain subject in the writing. Style on the other hand, would be influenced by writer's consideration on the target audience and how the writer's think a certain writing must be presented.

Answer:

B

Explanation:Tone is the writer's attitude toward the subject and audience; style is the way something is written.

Answer: the italicized word is He and it is a pronoun.

Explanation: He is specifically a subject pronoun and it is rated as the third person singular and corresponds to a male. Here's a chart of the subject pronouns:

First person singular:       I              First person plural:      we

Second person singular: you         Second person plural: you

Third person singular: He, She, It  Third person plural:     they

The correct answer is "the rules vs. the ways of Maycomb". Scout's first days at school is a theme included in the first chapters of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. This theme is focused in the conflict of the rules vs. the ways of Maycomb because it starts when Miss Caroline gave one quarter to Walter Cunningham Jr. without knowing the ways of Maycomb. Miss Caroline could not expected that the boy had not money to pay her back.