1. uses word order rather than inflections to show grammatical relationships - morpheme
2. the smallest unit of semantic or grammatical meaning: word, base, affix or inflection -declension
3. a participle, infinitive, or gerund - analytic language
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The missionaries request a piece of land on which to build a church. The village leaders and elders offer them a plot in the Evil Forest, believing that the missionaries will not accept it. To the elders’ amazement, the missionaries rejoice in the offer. But the elders are certain that the forest’s sinister spirits and forces will kill the missionaries within daysThe church wins many converts from the efulefu (titleless, worthless men). One day, several osu, or outcasts, come to church. Many of the converts move away from them, though they do not leave the service. Afterward, there is an uproar, but Mr. Kiaga firmly refuses to deny the outcasts membership to the church. He argues that they will not die if they cut their hair or break any of the other taboos that have been imposed upon them. Mr. Kiaga’s steadfast conviction persuades most of the other converts not to reject their new faith simply because the outcasts have joined them. The osu soon become the most zealous members of the church. To the clan’s disbelief, one boasts that he killed the sacred royal python. Okonkwo urges Mbanta to drive the Christians out with violence, but the rulers and elders decide to ostracize them instead. Okonkwo bitterly remarks that this is a “womanly” clan. After announcing the new policy of ostracism, the elders learn that the man who boasted of killing the snake has died of an illness. The villagers’ trust in their gods is thereby reaffirmed, and they cease to ostracize the converts.
Summary: Chapter 19
Okonkwo’s seven years of exile in Mbanta are drawing to an end. Before he returns to Umuofia, he provides a large feast for his mother’s kinsmen. He is grateful to them but secretly regrets the missed opportunity to have further increased his status and influence among his own clan. He also regrets having spent time with such un-masculine people. At the feast, one man expresses surprise that Okonkwo has been so generous with his food and another praises Okonkwo’s devotion to the kinship bond. He also expresses concern for the younger generation, as Christianity is winning people away from their families and traditions.
Analysis: Chapters 17–19
Nwoye is drawn to Christianity because it seems to answer his long-held doubts about his native religion, specifically the abandonment of twin newborns and Ikemefuna’s death. Furthermore, Nwoye feels himself exiled from his society because of his disbelief in its laws, and the church offers refuge to those whom society has cast out. The church’s value system will allow twins to live, for example, which offers comfort to the pregnant woman who has had to endure the casting away to die of her four sets of newborn twins. Similarly, men without titles turn to Christianity to find affirmation of their individual worth. The osu are able to discard others’ perception of them as members of an ostracized caste and enter the church as the equals of other converts.
Okonkwo, on the other hand, has good reason to reject Christianity. Should Mbanta not drive the missionaries away, his killing of Ikemefuna would lose part of its religious justification. The damage to his relationship with Nwoye also seems more pointless than before. Both matters become his mistake rather than the result of divine will. Moreover, men of high status like Okonkwo view the church as a threat because it undermines the cultural value of their accomplishments. Their titles and their positions as religious authorities and clan leaders lose force and prestige if men of lower status are not there—the great cannot be measured against the worthless if the worthless have disappeared.
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The missionaries ask for a piece of land on which to build a church. The village leaders and elders offer them a plot in the Evil Forest, believing that the missionaries will not accept it. To the elders’ amazement, the missionaries rejoice in the offer. But the elders are certain that the forest’s sinister spirits and forces will kill the missionaries within days. The church wins. One day, several outcasts, come to church. Many of the converts move away from them, though they do not leave the service. Afterward, there is an uproar, but Mr. Kiaga firmly refuses to deny the outcasts membership to the church. He argues that they will not die if they cut their hair or break any of the other taboos that have been imposed upon them. Mr. Kiaga’s steadfast conviction persuades most of the other converts not to reject their new faith simply because the outcasts have joined them. The osu soon become the most zealous members of the church. To the clan’s disbelief, one boasts that he killed the sacred royal python. Okonkwo urges Mbanta to drive the Christians out with violence, but the rulers and elders decide to ostracize them instead. Okonkwo bitterly remarks that this is a “womanly” clan. After announcing the new policy of ostracism, the elders learn that the man who boasted of killing the snake has died of an illness. The villagers’ trust in their gods is thereby reaffirmed, and they stop ostracizing the converts.
Okonkwo, however, has good reason to reject Christianity. Should Mbanta not drive the missionaries away, his killing of Ikemefuna would lose part of its religious justification. The damage to his relationship with Nwoye also seems more pointless than before. Both matters become his mistake and not the result of divine will. Moreover, men of high status like Okonkwo view the church as a threat because it undermines the cultural value of their accomplishments. Their titles and their positions as religious authorities and clan leaders lose force and prestige if men of lower status are not there—the great cannot be measured against the worthless if the worthless have disappeared.
B. Joe wouldn’t life a finger to help his neighbor if you paid him.
C. Joe was a poor, sorry excuse for a farmer.
D. Joe pulled the brim of his hat low over his eyes as he settled back against the tree. He looked out over his fields. “That plowing can wait a day or two,” he thought, and closed his eyes for a midday nap.
The correct answer is D. Joe pulled the brim of his hat low over his eyes as he settled back against the tree. He looked out over his fields. “That plowing can wait a day or two,” he thought and closed his eyes for a midday nap.
Explanation:
In literature, the characterization is the way the author of a text reveals the personality and traits of characters. Additionally, this can be classified into direct characterization if the author uses descriptions or indirect characterization if instead of describing directly the personality and traits of a character the author presents the actions and words of the character and this suggests the personality of a character. Considering this, the one that is an example of indirect characterization is option D, because this presents actions and words of Joe that suggest he does not like to work or is lazy and it is the only option that does not directly describe his personality and therefore an example of indirect characterization.
The poet means: a. The villagers’ simple lives helped them avoid evil.
Thomas Gray, a XVIII poet, describes the villagers' humble or simple life. This is one of his purposes: to show the contrast bewteen the poor villagers and the rich citizens who have become rich at the expense of the poor villagers. In the lines, the poet tells that their social class (their lot) does not allow the poor villagers to do good or evil. In his opinion, they are not seen as virtuous people or criminals. Their poverty has made them nothing but simple.
b. The villagers’ vices were the cause of their hard lives. The poet does not see any vice in the villagers.
c. The villagers’ lives prevented them from being good. The poet wants to highlight the simple lives of the villagers. This option just refers to "..villagers' life".
d. The villagers’ faults were hidden by their deaths. The poet thinks the villagers have not done anything wrong.
What does the poet mean in the following lines from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”? Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined
a. The villagers’ simple lives helped them avoid evil.
b. The villagers’ vices were the cause of their hard lives.
c. The villagers’ lives prevented them from being good.
d. The villagers’ faults were hidden by their deaths.
The author of this poem means with that line that death was something that had to happen to them. The death was something inevitable, that was their destiny but nobody wakes up every day thinking that you are going to die, for this reason, the author wants to express that their simple life style helped them to cope with the thought of death, by simple he mean humble as it is not hte case of the rich people who did nothing but crimes. Like everyone, the people form the village had virtues and some "crimes" that died with them that day.
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