Question: in this passage from “the devil and tom walker,” what cultural attitude is expressed by the people living at that time and place? title: _/ from “the devil and tom walker” \_ passage:     it was late in the dusk of evening when tom walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the time of the indian wars; when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit.” possible answers: v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v a: they believed indians to be primitive people with superstitious beliefs and practices. b: they believed it was foolish to go out into the surrounding forests and swamps alone. c: they feared that indian uprisings would soon take place in the region.

What is one thing that happened to benno harte when he and his family left france to escape the nazis?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The line “violently shuddered—with the fright of it” could be categorized as a(n) and a anaphora; sensory appeal sensory appeal; image paradox; anaphora personification; image