"Edison is a newsboy, and admits that he doesn’t know much about animals."
The shipping company needed a replacement captain immediately.
Edison refuses the other boy’s suggestion that they stop or climb a tree.
Edison was afraid to make the journey by himself.
The passage refers to stumps as a feature of the “ravished” forest.
A simile is a figurative expression including the word like or as.
"Edison was a newsboy, a job usually held by kids between the ages of 8 and 14."
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The passage states explicitly that they had to reach the captain that night so he could leave the next morning.
The passage appears to be part of a larger narrative of the life of Edison.
Edison decided that he would always learn whatever he needed to know before beginning an enterprise.
A decrease in supply would probably raise the price of crops.
The Populist Party was formed to represent the interests of farmers and common citizens.
Cooperatives are meant to eliminate the extra costs of middle men.
The farmers were annoyed that the tariff closed off a market for their crops.
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This information is contained in the first sentence of the second paragraph.
The passage is most likely introducing the location in which the story will take place.
The passage provides a thorough description of a small village.
Personification is the technique in which something non-human is described as if it were a human being.
"The references to Antwerp, Napoleon, and the Low Countries indicate that this passage describes a village in Europe, most likely in Belgium."
"The author states that the villagers would never think of using another mill, despite the problems with their mill."
Boone’s life is the subject of the passage.
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The tone of the passage indicates that the author approves of Boone.
Personification is when something that is not a person is described as if it were a person.
