Read the excerpt from their eves were watching god
for instance during the summer when she heard the subtle but compelling rhythms of the bahaman drummers, she'd
walk over and watch the dances. she did not laugh the "saws" to scorn as she had heard the people doing
which phrase from the excerpt is the best example of nonstandard english?
for instance during the summer
subtle but compelling rhythms
laugh the "saws to scom
had heard the people doing

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive