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Which type of context clue does Reagan use for the meaning of beholden in Section 6 of "A Time for Choosing"?

A. synonym

B. contrast

C. antonym

D. explanation

 

6- And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

What poetic device does Yeats use in the following excerpt from "Down by the Salley Gardens"?

    She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

A. repetition - a repeated word or phrase that is used to emphasize a point

B. personification - attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman

C. simile - a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

D. onomatopoeia - a word that imitates the sound that it describes

Which sentence below correctly uses an antonym of restrain?

A. I could not bridle my excitement when I heard the good news.

B. The judge tried to liberate people from jail by changing unjust laws.

C. Though I want to eat that cake, I am going to have to inhibit myself from indulging today.

D. The king regulated the speech of the courtiers with unspoken rules.

Which sentence below correctly punctuates the quote?

A. In "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman writes ", Walk the deck my Captain lies."

B. In "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman writes, "Walk the deck my Captain lies.

C. In O Captain! My Captain! Whitman writes Walk the deck my Captain lies.

D. In "O Captain! My Captain!" Whitman writes, "Walk the deck my Captain lies."