Read the excerpt from midsummer by derek walcott. their thick skulls bled with rancor when the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quips you could trace to the sonnets, or the moor’s eclipse. what can be concluded about the speaker’s perspective by the allusions to sonnets and the moor’s eclipse? a)the speaker thinks that most people in the riot have read shakespeare. b)the speaker thinks that the riot police and skinheads have a common history. c)the speaker believes that the riot police are witty and intelligent. d)the speaker believes that the skinheads are solely responsible for the riots.

The correct answer option is b) speaker thinks that the riot police and skinheads have a common history.

Explanation:

We are given an excerpt from 'Midsummer' by Derek Walcott and by the the allusions to sonnets and the moor’s eclipse, we are to make a conclusion the speaker's perspective.

The given excerpt gives an idea of how the skinheads and the riot police passed on witty remarks together. This gives us a hint about the speaker's perspective and from this, we can conclude that the speaker thinks that the riot police and skinheads have a common history.

b) speaker thinks that the riot police and skinheads have a common history.

Explanation:

identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. tell whether each clause is used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

11.) emily dickinson, who was born in 1830in amherst, massachusetts, was a great american poet.

12.) she appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family's home.

13.) there she wrote poems that literary critics now call "great american poetry".

14.) unfortunately, only a few of dickinson's poems were published while she was alive.

15.) after she died in 1886, her other poems were published.

16.) i think everyone should reaad at least some of dickonson's poetry.

17.) dickinson is a poet whose work i now read often.

18.) the poems i have just finished reading are "a narrow fellow in the grass" and "apparently with no surprise"

19.) the rythyms of dickonson's poems are best appreciated when you read the poems aloud.

20.) whatever i read by emily dickonson surprises amd inspires me.