|Abe) Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia.
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Lider, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly
missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the
Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Lider went home,
rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the a mountains.
Which best explains how Garcia's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
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Garcia uses short, forceful words to assert a pessimistic opinion on fate.
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Garcia uses formal, academic language and location words to suggest a theory about fate.
O Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate's defeat.
O Garcia uses words with positive connotations to suggest an optimistic outlook on fate.

The pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late he was right on time. question 12 options: (a)correct as it is (b)the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late, he was right on time. (c)the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late; and he was right on time. (d)the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late: he was right on time.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)

Which development most aided explorers in their ability to set sail the oceans to discover the new world during the age discovery? a.waterproof sails b.the printing press c.map-making devices d.fictional travel accounts