Read the excerpt from "the snow.”on stump and stack and stem, —the summer's empty room, acres of seams where harvests were, recordless, but for them. what is the connotation of the word "empty”? the area looks run-down. the area looks scary. the area looks barren. the area looks fragile.

The correct answer to which is the connotation of the word "empty" in that excerpt is C. The area looks barren.

The poem "The Snow" - also known as "It Sifts From LeadenSieves" - by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) describes the movement and the effects of snow in a lyrical and beautifully metaphorical way. She captures how it falls and covers the the road, the fences and the landscapes, transforming them from a familiar vision into something different and strange in a romantic way.

In the mentioned excerpt, the snow has covered the fields where the harvests were in summer, full of live and vegetation, turning them into an "empty" or barren space. The memories of the plantation in summer have been replaced by an empty field covered in snow, rendering it ghostly and barren.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.