Read the excerpt from Black Boy. They came toward me and I broke into a wild run toward home. They overtook me and flung me onto the pavement. I yelled, pleaded, kicked, but they wrenched the money out of my hand. What is the connotative meaning of wild as it is used in this excerpt? a). Positive; it suggests a feeling of freedom. b). Negative; it means overcome with fear. c). Negative; it describes loss of direction. d). Positive; it emphasizes enthusiasm.

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit

In this excerpt , mr.stonecrop is compared to a mountain. how does this description relates to mr.stoncrops roll in the main conflict of the story

Which of the following is true of theme? a.theme is what readers learn from the character's experiences. b. there is only ever one theme in a story or poem. c. there is usually no hint of a story's theme until the climax. d.theme is developed only through dialogue.