Driven by a desire for comfort and physical well-being,
several groups of women introduced alternative
approaches to fashion in the 1850s. Most combined a
dress shortened to about four or five inches below the
knee with some sort of baggy pantaloons underneath.
-Wheels of Change,
Sue Macy
Which phrase states the cause in the passage?
a. “driven by a desire for comfort”
b. “women introduced alternative approaches”
c. “most combined a dress”
What phrase states the effect?
a. “driven by a desire for comfort”
b. “women introduced alternative approaches”
c. “most combined a dress”

The image of the observation balloons moving across the sunset is created using -no adjectives -few adjectives -many adjectives

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

That alligator hungry. vittles very scarce that time a season. his belly be pinchin him hard, now. but bruh deer is fat, and so he is in heavy trouble. the alligator there in front of him. the beagles there behind him. what bruh deer gone do? he sees the alligator and he hears the beagles. how does the author readers understand what the word pinchin means?