Using our prior knowledge and context clues, what do you think preserved means in this passage from "american gothic"? “ a smokehouse/where a ham in hickory/is also being preserved” to make lasting quiet or sedate in demeanor halted or stopped a reference to something else that the reader is assumed to be familiar with

It was a bitter cold saturday morning ,the young track star dressed for his daily five mile run

You have to go. you have to, yer the only doctor. go ahead on, you," bruh fox say. big doc rabbit went down to the brook again. the water was so cool and ribbly and it kept the crock of cream so fresh and cold. doc rabbit drank about half of the cream this time. then he went back up to brother fox with the hard labor of raisin the roof. heard tell about this phrase remind readers that these stories were usually told, not read. which line from the excerpt is an example of personification?

In chapter 5, ekwefi is called "a woman who had suffered a great deal and in chapter 6, when discussing ezinma with chielo, she states, '"i pray she stays." speculate what may have been an event that caused suffering in ekwefi's past.