Which of the following is a synonym for basis?

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the queswhen i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists whinstructed - 'to whom it may concern' - that we were marguerite and bailey johnson negropassengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for the poor littleand plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.deducing from the diction, which of the following are possible audiences for the memoir select all that appchildren of three and four years of age like ones in the memoirafrican-american adults from the south who can relate to angelou's storycaucasian adults interested in american historytrain conductors and passengers

According to stephen hawking in the "origin of the universe" lecture, "why are we here" and "where did we come from" are questions that

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.