1) Identify the type of context clue used in the following sentence by looking at the bold word. Mary looked around at the PRISTINE kitchen, wondering who had taken the time to clean.

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Restatement or Description

Explanation:

pristine in this case is describing the kitchen; also just took the lesson

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

theres no poem plesae include that