read the following excerpt from act i, scene 1 of lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun:
walter is he out yet?

ruth what you mean out? he ain't hardly got in there good yet.

walter (wandering in, still more oriented to sleep than to a new day) well, what was you doing all that yelling for if i can't even get in there yet? (stopping and thinking) check coming today?

ruth they said saturday and this is just friday and i hopes to god you ain't going to get up here first thing this morning and start talking to me 'bout no money — 'cause i 'bout don't want to hear it.

walter something the matter with you this morning?

ruth no — i'm just sleepy as the devil. what kind of eggs you want?

walter not scrambled, (ruth starts to scramble eggs) paper come? (ruth points impatiently to the rolled up tribune on the table, and he gets it and spreads it out and vaguely reads the front page) set off another bomb yesterday.

ruth (maximum indifference) did they?

walter (looking up) what's the matter with you?

ruth ain't nothing the matter with me. and don't keep asking me that this morning.
explain how stage directions add to the reader's understanding of the characters in this excerpt. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer

I’n a rough draft, where should the main idea first appear in the paper

What questions should readers ask about the exposition of a story?

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings