These youngsters parrot the words of north korea's deputy minister of education, who uses anne's diary to teach students that north korea's top priority is to build a stronger military to defeat the americans.

how does the author's use of the word parrot affect the passage?

it highlights the way the children have been brainwashed.

it adds humor to the passage.

it stresses the passage's hopeful tone.

it shifts the passage's tone from disdainful to arrogant.

What character trait does penelope demonstrate when she calls for the suitors to hold a contest? what other character has a similar trait? she demonstrates cleverness, like odysseus does when he tricks and overcomes foes. she demonstrates hospitality, like the phaeacians do when odysseus lands on their island. she demonstrates a lack of confidence, like telemachus does when he fails to kick out the suitors. she demonstrates a lack of self control, like odysseus’s men do when they slaughter helios’s cattle.

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

Samuel johnson believed that literature should appeal mainly to the scholar, to him the common man, to teach him the common man, to teach and him the king and the parliament