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Can someone please help me with these questions?

1. "Then season all with a handful or two of Melancholly Expressions, such as Dreadful, Deadly, cruel cold Death, unhappy fate, weeping eyes, &c."

In spite of the 250-year-old spellings and punctuation, on the basis of context clues of restatement, "Melancholly" must mean

Answer: ____?
Happy
Unhappy
Expression

2. "Then season all with a handful or two of Melancholly Expressions, such as Dreadful, Deadly, cruel cold Death, unhappy fate, weeping eyes, &c."

Which of the following context clues help the reader understand the meaning of "Melancholly"?

Answer Choices:
dreadful
unhappy fate
deadly
handful
season

Respuesta :

chilljain33

The appropriate choices for both the parts can be written as below,

  1. On the basis of the context clues of the statement, “Melancholy” must mean ''unhappy''.
  2. Out of the context clues given above, ''unhappy fate'' help the readers understand the meaning of “Melancholy”.

Therefore, the options 1-B and 2-B hold true.

What is the significance of context clues?

A context clue can be referred to or considered as the hints within the composition, which help in understanding the actual meaning of a word or a phrase, which may otherwise, be difficult to understand.

As in the above situation, the actual meaning of the term ''melancholy'' is something that is not happy, and in the passage, the words like ''unhappy fate'' act as the context clues for the understanding of the readers.

Therefore, the options 1-B and 2-B hold true and states regarding the significance of context clues.

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