"Mr. Jones's gun...was set...up at the foot of the flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a year--once on October the twelfth, the
anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer Day,
the anniversary of the Rebellion." What is the best prediction for what
this could be foreshadowing?*
It's likely someone will use the gun in a way that isn't outlined.
Mr. Jones will return to the farm to use the gun against the animals.
None of these
The gun will be never be used.

How does storytelling imagine the future?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Me ! select the correct answer. which sentence is an oxymoron? a. to have peace, we must go to war. b. a glass can be viewed as either half full or half empty. c. the lawyer was deceptively honest with his clients. d. spies do not dress like spies. e. though the lab was messy, there was a method to his madness.