Gulliver speaks of england: “i then spoke at large upon the constitution of an english parliament; partly made up of an illustrious body called the house of peers; persons of the noblest blood, and of the most ancient and ample patrimonies. . ”
king of brobdingnag speaks of brobdingnag: “he asked, ‘what methods were used to cultivate the minds and bodies of our young nobility, and in what kind of business they commonly spent the first and teachable part of their lives? what course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct? ’”
in the passage above, who speaks “at large upon the constitution of an english parliament”?
the king of brobdingnag
the queen of brobdingnag
glumdalclitch
gulliver

two factors or characteristics of a chapter that might make it difficult to read would be words i don't understand, or if i don't fully understand what's going on in the chapter. strategies i can use to get through the difficult material would be a dictionary, and re-reading previous chapters to get a better grasp of what the author is trying to say.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.